The Fosse Gallery re-opened its doors on April 12th and I cannot believe it has taken me two weeks to get round to visiting-shame! How appropriate though to have Seren Bell showing her New Works for Spring. Seren’s work shows a real understanding of nature and her works get stronger every time she exhibits. There…
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I am a student at University Oxford in Art History. I have an eclectic taste in Fine Art ranging from Medieval to post modern and enjoy painting, sculpture and architecture. I am now retired having had careers in Coal Mining, Water Supply and Construction.
Piero della Francesca and the ‘art’ of Looking at Art.
Piero della Francesco will always stand out in my memory of studying the History of Art at Oxford University. In the first module of the first term of the Certificate course we listened to the wonderful Mary Acton explaining how to look at paintings. She used a number of themes to illustrate her lectures: composition, space,…
Piero della Francesca and the ‘art’ of Looking at Art.
Piero della Francesco will always stand out in my memory of studying the History of Art at Oxford University. In the first module of the first term of the Certificate course we listened to the wonderful Mary Acton explaining how to look at paintings. She used a number of themes to illustrate her lectures: composition, space,…
Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life. An important new retrospective in Wakefield opening in May.
Art in the U.K. is to soon to become accessible once more. As we approach an opening up of art galleries, museums and other centres again, I am starting to make my travel plans. Very near the top of the list, if not my first aspiration is to return to Wakefield to visit what could…
More on Grace Jones and her music and art
Grace Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio at The Nottingham Contemporary was an enjoyable post to write and the feedback referred to her great music. Nightclubbing was my entry point and it was great to listen to it again. It is a great album containing some of Jones’s own work and a number of great covers. There…
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