Japanese Body Painting Artist

I'm very disappointed in North Light Books.  I used to think they were a great publishing firm for artists. I always used to look out for their new publications and was delighted when I found out my book would be published by them. The reason I'm disappointed is that North Light Books have put out a Call for Entries for urban sketchers to contribute pen and ink art for a COLOURING BOOK! the

I have a problem with contemporary art. I always feel like I need a map to navigate what's happened in the last 100 years. There's just so many different artists and so many different art movements - and I find it very difficult to sort out who's important and who's not. This week Laurence King published a book called Art Visionaries which might well provide a resource to fill the gaps in my

I've spent a delightful few hours recently putting together a page About Rory McEwen on my Botanical Art and Artists website. I'm going to develop a series of pages about various famous botanical artists. I started with Maria Sibylla Merian so decided to do a contemporary botanical artist next - and, of course Rory McEwen was the obvious one to do!  For those who don't know him, he's probably

A major announcement by Gabi Campanario today - he's stepping down from the Board of Urban Sketchers. Dear fellow urban sketchers, Since setting up the Urban Sketchers nonprofit in 2009, I've been quite involved with most operational aspects of the organization, from filing government forms and dealing with bank accounts to setting up blogs, organizing events and recruiting volunteers. As

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