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Remembering Eric Ravilious (1903-42)
Eric Ravilious, Hurricanes in Flight, 1942 (DACS/Artist's Estate)On 2nd September 1942 Eric Ravilious disappeared, along with four British airmen, when their Hudson aircraft failed to return from an...
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Parade's End: TV with an Eye for Painting
Fans of BBC costume drama may be slightly perplexed by Parade's End, which depicts the world of the upper classes in the early 20th century as cold and carelessly brutal. The first episode also had...
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Mockford & Doig (plus new Ravilious date)
Harold Mockford, Eastbourne, 1958 (artist's estate)It was great to see so many people at our talk in Eastbourne on Sunday - 150 or thereabouts, including an MP and the Mayor and his wife! Aside from a...
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Eric Ravilious: V&A Study Day
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Help Beachy Head Lighthouse Keep its Stripes!
Eric Ravilious, Beachy Head, 1939 (DACS/Artist's estate)Visiting Eastbourne recently I learnt about the campaign to keep the red and white stripes on Beachy Head lighthouse. At the moment they don't...
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Pre-Raphaelite Moderns, or Trouble in Gallery IX
John Everett Millais, Isabella, 1849, Walker Art Gallery LiverpoolLove them or hate them, you have to say this for the Pre-Raphaelites: they have staying power. Year after year the shows roll out, each...
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The Fry Menagerie
Poster for 'The Fry Menagerie', designed by Mark Hearld and Simon Lewin. More pictures at All Things Considered.Exhibition information: fryartgallery.org
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Flight and the Artistic Imagination
Henri Matisse, Icarus, 1947 (V&A)It's 'last chance to see' time for the wonderful summer show, 'Flight and the Artistic Imagination' at Compton Verney in Warwickshire. Once again a relatively...
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Great Works & Details: Tom Lubbock & Kenneth Clark
Just as a great river does not flow from a single source, but is made up of innumerable tributaries great and small, so the total impression of a work of art is built up of a hundred different...
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Lisbon Story
Thinking about details and ways of seeing, I remembered a trip to Lisbon a few years ago and delved into my computer's memory for these pictures...The old part of the city has been protected from the...
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The City in Miniature: Alan Wolfson's New York
One of the joys of the internet these days is the site or blog that basically rebroadcasts images from elsewhere on the web. I'm sure there's a word for it, but I don't know what it is. Anyway there's...
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Winifred Nicholson: Music of Colour
Winifred Nicholson, Daffodils & Bluebells in a Norman Window, 1950s (Kettle's Yard)Walking around Kettle's Yard, the former Cambridge home of art collector HS (Jim) Ede, a few years ago I was...
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The Peculiar Greatness of Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood, Breton Woman at Prayer, 1930 (Southampton City AG)A new travelling exhibition at the Norwich Castle Museum looks anew at the life and work of Christopher Wood (1901-1930) by hanging...
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Ravilious Lifeboat Print: Help for Heroes
Eric Ravilious, Lifeboat, 1938 (DACS/artist's estate)The Towner Gallery has recently acquired 'Lifeboat', a 1938 watercolour by Eric Ravilious, on long-term loan. This gorgeous painting, which featured...
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Edward Calvert: The Cyder Feast
Edward Calvert, The Cyder Feast, wood engraving, 1828 Edward Calvert was one of those 19th century British artists who were inspired by the example of William Blake. Like his friend Samuel Palmer,...
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Victory Flag!
Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954/5Early last year President Obama presented Jasper Johns with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour in the United States.'It has been noted that Jasper...
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Ravilious at St Bride Library
A wonderful evening in store at the St Bride Library, off Fleet Street. We'll be talking about the fantastic interwar boom in auto-lithography - a form of lithography that involves artists working...
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