Japanese Body Painting Artist

Once upon a time there was an initiative called Your Paintings. The aim was to digitise and provide a comprehensive online catalogue of all the oil paintings in public ownership in the UK. As yet it does not provide any record of the watercolours, sculpture, drawing and prints also held by public collections - more's the pity. For some reason the website for 'Your Paintings' was hosted by the

Last night I discovered that I'd missed an excellent BBC programme called Apples, Pears and Paint: How To Make a Still Life Painting which was broadcast last month. It provides a history of what has historically been the least popular genre of painting - and the depiction of fruit, flowers and domestic objects - from the still life painting in Egypt and Pompeii to Cezanne and Picasso via

Van Gogh's Bedrooms is a very unusual exhibition opens in the Regenstein Hall of The Art Institute of Chicago today. It closes 10th May 2016. While most of us won't be able to see it in person, there are quite a few resources online which allow us to appreciate some of the effort which has gone into this exhibition. At the end of this post I've also listed my very extensive list of posts on this

These are some notes I made when visiting the exhibition of artwork by Jean Etienne Liotard at the Royal Academy of Arts - after I saw the new exhibition 'Painting the Modern Garden' on Wednesday. I'd been meaning to visit this exhibition for quite some time as it includes a lot of pastel portraits and I wanted to take a close look at them from a technical perspective. If you like pastels or

Every year I write about how to enter the world's largest open submission art competition - the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. You need to know Artists wishing to enter need to know six things up front: If your entry is not one of the first 12,000 entries received you won't be exhibited. This is because, as in previous years, the RA are only accepting 12,000 entries for the

As usual I have some suggestions as to art exhibitions to see in London over the Christmas/New Year period. Plus the all important details of when the galleries are open and when they are closed. Major exhibitions have their titles in bold Links to the website for the exhibition is embedded in each title Exhibition venues are ordered according to the number of visitors they generated in 2014

Did you know that the world's very first Christmas card was sent by the director of an art museum? Henry Cole, the Founding Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum sent the first Christmas card in 1843 This post covers two topics the Christmas e-card sent as part of your marketing communications plan for your business as an artist the Christmas e-card you might need to send to friends and

I learned a few new things about framing art while writing this week's blog post Do frames help to sell art? Today's post is also about framing and shares some facts you might not be aware of. You can find the references to articles read in arriving at a wider knowledge of framing and framing choices at the end of the article. The purpose of a frame A frame has four main purposes. It serves

After five years, the Europe Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum that house the permanent collection of 17th- and 18th century European art and design will reopen to the public on Wednesday. This brings to an end another of the major projects in the programme of upgrading the galleries to the 21st century. To provide all our visitors with the best quality experience and optimum access to

I'm guessing that there are people like me who have been watching The Great Pottery Throw Down on BBC2 and thinking "must pay a bit more attention to ceramics"! So last week I took the lift to the sixth floor of the Victoria & Albert Museum and walked the whole length of the V&A - from end to end and round the corner - because that's how big the galleries need to be that house the V&A's Ceramics

A round-up of recent posts about art, artists, art exhibitions and news relevant to art by me and others in newspapers, journals, blogs and Facebook A new exhibition Artist & Empire opens at Tate Britian this week. Mahadaji Sindhia entertaining a British naval officer and military officer with a Nautch c.1815-20 Anonymous Delhi School Watercolour on paper, 222 x 317 mm | British Library The

Back in April I launched a new website now called Art Business Info. for Artists.  Since then I've been steadily updating the content, including some that is new rather than transferred from old sites.    You can access this easily from the home page - see image below. This post is about three new aspects to the site a new blog for news about the art business a new page about art dealers and

NPG website page re. the portrait of Camila Batmanghelidjh. Following the publication of the damning Public Accounts Committee Report into the funding and activities of Kids Company this afternoon I asked the National Portrait Company what was happening about the portrait of Camila Batmanghelidjh (its former CEO) I've got a lot of experience and expertise in reviewing applications for

A view of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition 2015 showing three prizewinners First Prize (£12,000): David Stewart Back in 2008 David Stewart created a portrait photograph of five girls about to start their GCSEs titled Five Girls, Four Cartons, Three Cups (subtitle 'United by hair'). Last night he won the £12,000 First Prize in the Taylor Wessing Photographic

The Rijksmuseum has started a campaign - #startdrawing - to get more people drawing. I hope the art museums in this country give the campaign their endorsement too. “In our busy lives we don’t always realize how beautiful something can be. We forget how to look really closely. Drawing helps because you see more when you draw. People who want to draw are always welcome in the Rijksmuseum.” Wim

I didn't know until yesterday that the Victoria & Albert Museum has one of the foremost and comprehensive collections of Japanese Arts in the world. A view in the centre of the new gallery The Museum began collecting in 1852 - the year the museum opened. As such it played a very important part in raising the awareness of the art of Japan amongst both artists and art lovers in the second half

We visited Saffron Walden recently and discovered the Fry Art Gallery which is open from April to the end of October each year.  The gallery provides a home to artwork by artists known as the Great Bardfield Artists who are also the subject of a recent publication - Bawden, Ravilious and the Artists of Great Bardfield.  The book of the exhibition | V&A Publications On display at the

A lot of the professional artists and other art business professionals (museums, galleries, publishers, suppliers etc) that I know are members of LinkedIn - which is a network designed for connecting professionals. It characterises itself thus the world's largest professional network with 300 million members in over 200 countries and territories around the globe I'm a member - and this is my

While I was in Cambridge recently I visited the Fitzwilliam Museum to see two exhibitions: Watercolour: Elements of nature (Mellon Room) - finishes 27 September Ruskin's Turners (Shiba Gallery) - finishes 4 October (after last being exhibited 15 years ago!) Below you will find a review of the first exhibition - and review of Ruskin's Turners follows tomorrow. I highly recommend both

I've developed a new page on my Art Business Info for Artists website. It's part of a brand new section I'm developing about selling art. Two sub-sections I've started to develop relate to: selling via art dealers, art galleries and art agents selling art online via ecommerce the starting page for the 'how to sell art' section of my website Selling Art This page provides a summary of