Category Archives: Art I Love

My personal response to great artwork from across the spectrum

Lucien Freud: A Painter’s Painter

Posted on 22 July 2011 by

Yesterday for the first time in weeks I managed to write today’s post and schedule it for publication this morning. I thought it would be nice to wake up, potter into town for a haircut and then traipse into the … Continue reading →

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Art I Love: James Turrell’s Deer Shelter

Posted on 18 June 2011 by

James Turrell has been building rooms which he calls ‘skyspaces’ since 1974. The basic idea is that it is a room with seating and an aperture through which the visitor can gaze at the sky. Sounds simple? It is actually … Continue reading →

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Art I Love: Bellini’s Doge Leonardo Loredan

Posted on 4 May 2011 by

It took me a while to get into Renaissance painting. Then once I had, I couldn’t see enough of it. Museums and galleries where I would have previously rushed through the early rooms without glancing left or right suddenly became … Continue reading →

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Art I Love: Vera Lutter’s Battersea Power Station

Posted on 18 February 2011 by

  I saw Vera Lutter’s work in a touring exhibition Alchemy at Harewood House in 2006. The exhibition presented the work of about a dozen contemporary photographers concerned with exploring the essential properties of the medium: space, time, light and … Continue reading →

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Art I Love: Anoli Perera’s Elastic Dress

Posted on 31 January 2011 by

An occasional series of posts on art which has impacted on me; art which has in some way encouraged other ways of ‘seeing’ and thinking about life and art. I first encountered Anoli Perera’s work at the Between Kismet to … Continue reading →

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Art I Love: David Johnson’s Imaginary Landscape no 2

Posted on 20 January 2011 by

I encountered David Johnson‘s work for the first time in a retrospective exhibition, Returning Light, at Dean Clough Galleries in Halifax in 2007. I have read that he seeks to create contemplative art; with a simple presence but with a … Continue reading →

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Art I Love no.1: Zadok Ben David’s Blackfield

Posted on 11 January 2011 by

Sometimes it’s too easy to lose focus on what we do and why we do it. One way of refocusing for me is to revisit great art I have seen. Usually I can’t actually revisit, but re-reading contemporaneous notes and … Continue reading →

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