Wednesday 28 February 2018

gustav klimt


klimt. you know who it is....

Tuesday 27 February 2018

Monday 26 February 2018

fang lijun


i first came across fang lijun way back in the nineties in amsterdam i think. being in the nascent time of the internet i'd seen little and knew eben less about contemporary chinese art. i loved the colour and the joy of the figures and had this image on the wall in my study right up until two weeks ago.

Sunday 25 February 2018

Saturday 24 February 2018

Friday 23 February 2018

emilio nanni


he doesn't say much about his work, emilio nanni, but maybe that's because he does a lot of different work. i couldn't walk by this tho....

Thursday 22 February 2018

Wednesday 21 February 2018

kurun warun


kurun warun - you've got to love this!

Tuesday 20 February 2018

etienne gelinas


etienne gelinas - is it a map, a meditation on space, and asemic inscription? or all three and more?

Monday 19 February 2018

woolly tank


i can't think of a better way to start the week than with a woolly tank. and if you find yourself at a loss then learn to knit - this could be you!

Sunday 18 February 2018

Saturday 17 February 2018

Friday 16 February 2018

takahiro kimura


in takahiro kimura's other life he works in animation. how great to see someone able to jump from one thing right into another

Thursday 15 February 2018

pierre gonnord


i've often said, and o absolutely believe it, that you can tell almost instantly if an artists has made the effort to look at art, to study the craft if you like. and that's the feeling i get with pierre gonnord. there's a quality to these that says their maker has put his time in and i thank him for that...

Wednesday 14 February 2018

Tuesday 13 February 2018

eszter bornemisza


ester bornemisza raises the bar for textile art. these are breathtaking. i could go on and on (and on and on and on...) about the poor profile of textile art in the uk. but i shan't. just look at bornemisza's work....

Monday 12 February 2018

donna ruff


you could, if you wanted to, describe donna ruff as a textile artist. you could, but it wouldn't describe the half of it....

Sunday 11 February 2018

Saturday 10 February 2018

Friday 9 February 2018

jennifer stegmann


i do feel sometimes that it feels like i'm trawling the internet for images of blue. with texture. and while that may or may not be true i couldn't overlook this by jennifer stegmann. all the texture. all the colour. not much online about her beyond that. love this tho.

Thursday 8 February 2018

evan j de silva



keeping on with the ukelele vibe check this out - it's both profoundly depressing (for all thumbs players like me) and at the same time restores my faith in the world. i have the tab for this but when i play it it sounds like a cat has fallen into my ukelele! beautiful tone, beautiful touch  - can't get tired of watching this.

Wednesday 7 February 2018

Tuesday 6 February 2018

linocut using xcut xpress



been an age since a craft post. so here's this one (note - third of a series). i actually own one of these xcut machine and i love it. note though that the long bed he shows doesn't come as part of the xcut package so you need to order it.

Monday 5 February 2018

raku inoue


in addition to be great motivational advice for the bored, even if i'm ambiguous about picking flowers just to make something, you've got to love these insects by raku inoue. i couldn't embed the link but i'd highly recommend watching the video attached

Sunday 4 February 2018

Saturday 3 February 2018

Friday 2 February 2018

ali banisadr


the linked article says far more about ali banisadr than i need to but looking at these it ticks all my aesthetic and art history boxes without really needing to do either.

Thursday 1 February 2018

jeffrey milstein


much beloved of cheap documentaries images of what the world looks like from above have never lost interest for the public. jeffrey milstein takes that and steps it up a big gear. check it out - these images are sumptuous