A quick disclaimer. Some artists in the blog are from the gallery and others are not. I am not paid to promote any artists whom I do not represent. This blog is simply for the joy of sharing my discoveries with you. Comments welcome!
Sometimes people ask why this artist and not another? Is it the right gallery, right place and time, luck? I’m sure a bit of all can’t hurt. But all I know is that before I knew who the Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo was, my eyes immediately went to that one painting in the room. His.
Read MoreRecently I had a conversation with friends about whether AI generated art is “art”. Putting aside for the moment the obvious issues of disruption, if an artwork genuinely moves you, is it “art” whether or not it is generated by a human hand?
Read MoreBlack and white or so it seems. The genius of Levan Lagidze is that each pattern or hue brings a new one to the fore in a seemingly endless game of discovery, pulling you inside a deeply satisfying universe.
Read MoreVictoria Semykina’s playful illustrations reconnect with a lightness, a childhood feeling of wonder and expectation that is so often forgotten amidst the vast and varied experiences of adulthood.
Read MoreDmitri Prigov’s marvellous monsters live in the gap of all that is logical.
Read MoreLiving just past her 100th birthday, Bessarabian artist Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu had seen the world twist and turn and change for a full century.
Read MoreEach artwork is a story. Having missed last week’s post doing much the same thing in 2024 as the fine gentlemen in Alfons Walde’s 1927 “The Ascent of Skiers”, I took a super quick amateur look at the evolution of skiing through art.
Read MoreAnd now for something different. Some time ago I started writing (very) short stories inspired by art from the artists that I represent. This is one of them - inspired by the “Old Warrior” by Mamuka Dideba.
Read MoreWith titles like “Inside the Brain of a Bird” and “Drowning in the Tulip”, Lebanese-born artist Ihab Ahmad fires the imagination with enigmatic works populated by a myriad of colourful details. It feels almost like receiving a set of vibrant Lego pieces that you can form into a fantastic tale governed only by the further reaches of your imagination.
Read MoreOne of my favourite themes in the work of Iranian artist Reza Derakshani is the Hunt - a concept central to traditional Persian culture and one which on Derakshani’s canvases becomes a hunt for eloquence, or for colour, or even for the hunter.
Read MoreIslamic Art had enchanted and captivated me for quite some time - a passion shared with Paul Gauguin who once explained to his friends that the facial features of his 1888 self-portrait, Les Misérables, are directly inspired by floral designs in Persian carpets.
Read MoreThere is magic in a winter landscape. The stillness; the soft sounds muffled by the snow, the light reflecting off the myriad of sparkling snowflakes interwoven into a blanket of white. Everything feels more - more luminescent, more colourful, the best version of itself. Here is how various artists over the years perceived the winter wonderland - arranged day to night rather than chronologically.
Read MoreThe unique trajectory of Valentino Monticello’s fascinating life story is far beyond the 1-min read parameters of this blog, but here’s a glimpse.
Read MoreIn the sunshine or the moonlight, overlapping the last burnt-orange bursts of autumn or accentuating the colours all around it, fresh snow envelopes us in a muffled cocoon of joyful, wondrous, irresistible beauty. The striking archival pigment prints by Detroit-native Jef Bourgeau capture the joy, colours, and stillness of these moments.
Read MoreThere is magic in the air this holiday season. Despite all that is going on, joy has taken a stronghold and refuses to give up.
Read MoreJapanese-born Irish printmaker, Yoko Akino, gently questions our narrative of reality through images centred in nature that seem to ask, “if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
Read MoreKassou Seydou conjures a world where humans live in harmony with nature and each other. In the warm palette of his canvases, nature is an inseparable part of the human figure and the human experience.
Read MoreIt’s high time we talked about love. Toma Stenko delves into this complex and life-sustaining emotion through a kaleidoscope of colour, balancing movement and stillness to tell stories and create magic.
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