josep tapiró baró

of late it seems like insta and yt's algorithms are getting less and less imaginative but today, at last, this popped up. never heard of this guy, or if i have it was in my 'i won't look at representative art phase'! but these are luminous 

carmen cicero

 getting filmed in his loft. along with it being great to see someone at his age still working and creating, it is a thought that this has been made possible by rent protection. here, without that,  exorbitant rent increases, crippling rates, along with a ludicrous increase in utility prices, it's easy to see a real diminishing in the culture, from small businesses, performance venues and studio spaces. 

lee madgwick

 i love this image from lee madgwick. browse his portfolio here

philip guston

 nice wee doco on philip guston 

chung sang-hwa

 insight into chung sag-hwa's process 

tim's vermeer

 after going on about this the other week the whole documentary pops up on yt. i found it really interesting, not so much re vermeer (there was some criticism around it, some justified, some just plain sniffy), but definitely as a portrait of a fixation. unfortunately the documentary makers don't really go into that at all. fair play to tim tho, he knew what he wanted to do and he got it done! 

hasegawa tohaku

 

i've seen images similar to this prints, encaustic etc, but these by hasegawa tohaku are original and best. and from so long ago! amazing!

sean layh

i don't normally go a bundle on detailed representational works but instagram keeps throwing up the goods. in this case sean layh, who details the process of the above on his instagram account and the results are, for me, astonishing. there's not a bunch of stuff on his personal account but he's worth the look and a search on insta as his technique is just beautiful and the images suffused with an old school sensibility that just invites attention. check him out!

 

roberta boffo

i'm loving the work of roberta boffo. clearly there's some of her stuff that has much in common with some of mine but she does it with a brush! absolutely have a look at her instagram to watch her technique!

 

jill macleod

i was out the other day and came across jill macleod and a bunch of her work. they're so different from anything i would've even thought of doing, her use of colour and geometry was so bold - i was blown away!

laura knight

 

this is laura knight, who i came across via an old picture of boxers that she'd done. her pictures aren't really to my taste but there's lots of them to look at and a real range of subjects. what an interesting life she led! the wiki entry is worth checking out for more detail but here's a summary - 

Laura Johnson was born in Long Eaton in Derbyshire to Charles and Charlotte Johnson. Her father died not long after her birth, and Laura grew up in a family that struggled with financial problems. In 1889 (at the age of 12), she was sent to France with the intention that she would eventually study art at a Parisian atelier.

After a short time in French schools, she returned to England. There, at the age of 23, she entered the Nottingham School of Art, one of the youngest students ever to join the school.

At school, Laura met one of the most promising students, Harold Knight (1874–1961), aged 27, and determined that the best method of learning was to copy Harold's technique. They became friends, and married in 1903.

In 1907, the Knights moved to the artists' colony in Newlyn, Cornwall, alongside Lamorna Birch, Alfred Munnings and Aleister Crowley, where she painted in an Impressionist style. The Beach (1908), widely admired both by other artists and the public, is an example of this style. Another interesting work is The Green Feather, which was painted in one day. In 1913, she made a painting that was a first for a woman artist, Self Portrait with Nude, showing herself with a nude model, fellow artist Ella Naper.

After the First World War, the Knights moved to London, where Laura met some of the most famous ballet dancers of the day, such as Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with Lydia Lopokova and Enrico Cecchetti, and Anna Pavlova. Her most famous work dates from this period.

At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Laura Knight won the Silver Medal in Painting with the painting Boxer (1917).

In 1929, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and in 1936 she became the first woman elected to the Royal Academy.

From 1933, Dame Laura and her husband became regular visitors to Malvern. They found much inspiration for their work in the Malvern Hills and in the surrounding Worcestershire countryside. A blue plaque at the Mount Pleasant Hotel on Belle Vue Terrace, Great Malvern, commemorates the time they spent in the area.

Second World War Artist's Studio in a Bomber Factory: Charge hand Wilfred Powell helps Dame Laura Knight to set out her paints on a work bench in readiness for the day's work.

During the Second World War, Knight was an official war artist.[3] She worked on several commissions for the Ministry of Information's War Artists Advisory Committee, and she was one of only three British women war artists who travelled abroad.

After the war, she was the official artist at the Nuremberg Trials of the Nazi war criminals. One result was The Dock, Nuremberg (1946).

Source: The Swan Gallery

wang huaiqing

abstracts of furniture - wang huaiqing's got you covered

nestor toro

a last joyous blue monday from nestor toro

jiri anderle

i really enjoy the fragmented, abstracted nature of jiri anderle's work which, for me, seems more representational

benon lutaaya

benon lutaaya's paintings are amazing. absolutely have a google

irene mckenzie

i love the design and colour in these botanical images from irene mackenzie

matazo kayama

can't go wrong looking at the work of matazo kayama - i love the sensation of movement, and the tranquillity

joselito sabogal

joselito sabogal has little in the way of web presence other than a massive array of mesmerizing images online, can't ask for better than that.

sergio cerchi

i'm not going to lie, sergio cerchi's images aren't amongst my favourites but i find his structure and the way he gets his paint down quite enthralling

zao wou ki

red on a monday. zao wou ki hits the spot