This week, I took the train to Malvern to see a mesmerising new exhibition of paintings by Birmingham-based artist, Carolyn Blake. ‘Preserving the Memory’ at […]
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Reimagining Redditch: Art in everyday places
One of the Midlands’ most impressive masterpieces doesn’t hang inside a museum or art gallery but can be found, instead, in Redditch town centre. Kingfisher […]
Hugh Mendes: Painting Famous Artists’ Obituaries
Meet Hugh Mendes, the contemporary artist taking famous obituary examples of great artists as his haunting modern muses… Where does an artist’s creative inspiration come […]
Exhibition | Roberto Pagliarulo: ‘An Amalfi Dream’
In his 3rd solo show at Highgate Contemporary Art in London, Roberto Pagliarulo will exhibit 20 Italian landscape oil paintings and ink drawings, inspired by […]
Brutiful Brum: Q & A with painter Elliott Packham
After studying architecture, Elliott Packham turned to painting. Today, he depicts the ‘concrete jungle’ that is Brutalism, celebrating and capturing the simple block-like geometry of […]
Art History’s Heroes: from Hercules to hospital workers
This week my friend’s 5-year-old daughter drew him a picture. She was standing on a beach, and next to her was a nurse waving an […]
SUPA DIP! Art postcard lottery for Women’s Aid
Have you heard? SUPA Gallery is launching an exciting ‘SUPA dip’ art postcard lottery. Supporters will have the opportunity to own a mini-masterpiece by some […]
Exhibition | Arthur Lockwood’s industrial watercolours at BMAG
A new exhibition of paintings by renowned Birmingham artist Arthur Lockwood (1934 – 2019) has opened at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG). The artist […]
Lost Lowry painting sells for £2.6 million
A recently discovered painting by L. S. Lowry, The Mill, Pendlebury (1943), has sold for more than £2.6 million, after 70 years hidden away in America! […]
Review |William Blake at Tate Britain: Heaven or Hell?
300 artworks by William Blake. Heaven or hell? I headed to Tate Britain to see their colossal retrospective and find out. Here’s my review. Tate […]