An extraordinary personality in every single way, Marianne von Werefkin (née Marianna Vladimirovna Veryovkina) is considered the first female pre-Revolutionary avant-garde artist.
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Mulyadi W is a painter and illustrator of children’s magazines who is considered one of the masters of Indonesian portraiture. Well-known in South East Asia, his tender paintings are less known in the West.
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Across cultures and generations, ancient Buddhist art and East Asian woodblock cutting techniques have reached and similarly inspired two great and fiercely independent artists.
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s architecture - most notably the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna - is widely known. But did you know that he first achieved acclaim for his unusual, brightly-coloured paintings?
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Born in Nigeria and raised in England since age 4, Yeside Linney belongs to both and to neither. Having come to art in her late ‘60s, her work is a poetic exploration of Self and the environment along the continuum that is life.
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Hannelore Meinhold-Morgan says that ceramics are like poetry and music, only she composes in pots. Her ceramics are some of the most beautiful creations in clay I have seen outside a museum.
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With rarely before seen works from private collections, the major retrospective by Georgia’s iconic Levan Lagidze at the Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Art in Tbilisi is a must-see, transformative experience. On through 18 August.
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If you can’t beat it, have fun with it. I turned to my new friend DALL-E for a bit of fun with all the spam messages that keep popping up in response to my posts promoting the current exhibition.
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An interesting correlation between age, simple joy, and value …
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Toma Stenko unbelievably loves colour. For her, colour is the essence of being, of love. It is the prism through which she sees the world, seeing the best in everyone and everything. Don’t miss her current exhibition with us: TOMA AND IK STENKO: ESSENCE On view through 11 May.
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Kiran Manandhar is a pioneer who transformed Nepali contemporary art expression while staying true to his cultural roots. His work explores reflection, love and beauty in an explosion of vibrant, harmonious colour.
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Chinese jueban woodblock prints are no ordinary woodblocks. They are created using a “suicide technique” where each subsequent step destroys the previous one, making it impossible to go back and fix mistakes.
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I was intrigued as much by the Dutch artist Doortje van Ginneken’s art as by her confidence, so far as I could surmise the latter from the printed word.
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Balinese artist Nyoman Wirdana’s mystical artworks draw inspiration from the cosmos, nature, and mythology.
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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.
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Recently 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?
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Black 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.
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Victoria 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.
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