I am an Illustrator, pattern designer and all round creative born in London, England. When I was seven I moved to Wellington, New Zealand and I am currently based in Melbourne, Australia. I love moving, evolving and creating new experiences which highly influence my art. I like to combine objects and portraits with translucencies, florals, bug...
David Hockney is arguably the world’s greatest living artist. Now 78-years-old, he’s suffered a stroke, and is almost completely deaf. But he’s still working, still creating – and still wowing with a mercurial originality that is inspiring. When many people think of Hockney and his art, they think of swimming pools, boys in showers...
It’s taken a long, long time for Sonia Delaunay to be granted her first retrospective in the UK, and indeed she died back in 1979. With that in mind, it’s something of a travesty that it wasn’t until 2015 when the Tate Modern, London, finally did what no one else had the guts to do, and created an ode to the great artists work. Perhaps one...
Edgar Degas was a powerhouse art talent when the Impressionist movement first got underway in France in the mid 18th-century. Always a lone wolf who thought very highly of himself, and who was able to support himself thanks to an affluent family in a way his peers couldn’t, he never described himself as an Impressionist, yet at the same time he...
In the midst of a heat wave in the South of France, Henri Matisse visited a long-time favorite swimming pool to relax. Unable to properly cool off and finding the crowds unbearable, Matisse demanded to his assistant they go home immediately where he would begin work on his own swimming pool, his own way. What resulted is The Swimming Pool (1952)...
The collaborative relationship between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michael Basquiat developed in the 1980s after they were introduced to each other by art dealer Bruno Bischofberger. This relationship – both personal and professional, the good and the bad – was detailed in The Andy Warhol Diaries. Beginning in 1976, Andy Warhol began calling his...
Minimalist art is a style of art characterized by the pairing down of visual elements. This style began in the New York and became and important part of the American visual arts of the early 1960s. Minimalist art is a reaction to abstract expressionism and attempts to remove the elements of self expression, illusion, metaphor and emotion from the...
These paintings are by English painter, David Hockney – who was a big part of the pop art movement and now lives in both London and Southern California. In recent years he has taken to painting on Ipads and has done hundreds of paintings which he sends to his friends.
Eric Fischl hates art fairs. ‘They’re like speed dating events,’ he says sardonically. But an artist always needs subject matter and one day figurative artist found himself asking the question; ‘what if I make the art galleries and art fairs themselves the subject matter?’ Art fairs and gallery openings make up the subject matter for...
Swoon, real name Caledonia Dance Curry, recently partook in the Djerbahood Project, a popular street art scheme that sought to project an open-air museum onto the island of Djerba, situated slightly off the coast of Tunisia. The communal project, which could be seen openly by the public, is one attuned to Swoon’s personal ideals. A street artist...
David Lynch is sixty-eight. A celebrated filmmaker, he is known for his eerie atmospheres, sinister characters, and strange, elliptic plots that often lack logic. But he is at heart a visual artist, an all-rounder who graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia back in 1966. Before he was a filmmaker he was a painter...
