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A graduate of the Slade, Alice has painted and written about art all her life. With her children now having now grown up and departed the nest, she recently took up sculpture. More Posts

Ken Howard (1932-2022)

I was more than saddened to hear my old friend Ken Howard has passed away. A brilliant painter of light with an ebullient personality, Ken was the son of a Kilburn carpenter. He got his breakthrough as an artist covering ‘The Troubles’, commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, though not [...]

September 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

Fake or Fortune

The 10th edition of Fake or Fortune is back. Ostensibly a programme about whether an acquired painting might either be worth a fortune or, alternatively, a fake would not be the stuff of popularity but obviously it is. Fiona Bruce, who presents The Antique Road Show, adopts the same technique of [...]

August 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

Edinburgh Museums: National Gallery/Portrait Gallery

It’s a difficult question for a national museum as to whether it should showcase national art or collect masterpieces from beyond the borders. The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, whilst showing its Turners, was weighted towards Italian Renaissance and French Art. The northern renaissance [...]

July 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

David Hockney’s Eye/Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.

The weekend took me up to Cambridge for the opening of my college library. I used the opportunity to visit the Fitzwilliam Museum which I did not know as much as I should. There I saw one of the best curated exhibitions I have ever visited. The theme was to set David Hockney’s works alongside the [...]

July 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

Glyn Philpot/ Flesh and Spirit – Pallant House Chichester

Pallant House has done much to raise the profile of 20th century British art. In recent years I have seen exhibitions of Leon Underwood and John Minton. Now it is the turn of Glyn Philpot. Philpot was an immensely successful society portraitist in the 1920s who moved to Paris in the 1930s where he [...]

June 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

National Treasures/Caroline Shenton

National Treasures -Saving the Nation’s Art in World War could easily have been a dull record of logistics but Caroline Shenton’s humour, readability and depiction of colourful characters involved spares it from that fate It was a considerable task and achievement to save the paintings of the [...]

April 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

Bacon and Woman in White at the Royal Academy

For years I did not “get” Bacon. I did not like his contorted twisted forms, nightmarish figures and the liberal use of red paint. I also thought his licentious lifestyle formed an unnecessary part of his artistic reputation. One of the famous stories was of a friend bumping into him in St. [...]

April 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

A visit to the Courtauld

Yesterday I made my second visit to the refurbished Courtauld Gallery at a cost of £57m as part of our art course. We started on the first floor – the Medieval period and early Renaissance . I’m not that moved by medieval art but our excellent tutor did explain its significance and [...]

March 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

American and British art of the twentieth century

In our art course these past few weeks we have been considering American and British art of the twentieth century. American art before the twentieth century was colonial art depicting the West. America’s emergence artistically in the first half of the twentieth century owed much to the camera. [...]

March 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Art & Crime/Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm

Art & Crime is an account of looters, forgers, and fraudsters in the art world by two German journalists. They concentrate on Germany, though a small player in the art market. In 2018 the global art market was valued at $67 billion of which Germany only represented 1%. The book begins with the [...]

February 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

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