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

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

The only channel on British television which does programmes about art and artists on a regular basis - using people who are credible commentators is the BBC. In other programmes about art that are educational and informative and not just "entertainment". It's one very big reason why the BBC must remain a public broadcaster and NOT become commercial. Art documentaries on BBCiPlayer So - what

Yesterday, BBC4 broadcast a film about the story of 17th-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi called Michael Palin's Quest for Artemisia. I'm assuming Michael's name figures first in the title as he's beginning to get a bit of a reputation for doing programmes about leading artists. Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershoi Michael Palin in Wyeth's World I'm highlighting this

The BBC is currently telling The Story of Scottish Art on BBC Scotland - but is not broadcasting this south of the border. However I've only just found out that , very sensobly, all the programmes are now available to all of us who can access BBC iPlayer. I haven't watched them all as yet but the little I've seen suggest they are all going to be fascinating. I'm 'flying blind' when it comes to

Have you ever wondered what the artist statement of famous artists look like? Jeff Koons, Artist, New York City, Studio Portrait by Chris Fanning I've been developing a page devoted to Examples of Artists Statements on Art Business Info for Artists. Or should that be "Artist Statements by Artists"? Anyway, I think it's a great idea to see examples of what famous and successful artists have

It's the first Saturday of the month and JMW Turner's House at Twickenham is open today 2.00 to 4.30pm. Sandycombe Lodge is the country retreat which J.M.W. Turner designed for himself in 1813. The House is open the first Saturday of the month between April and October.  Vistors are advised to use the train as there is no parking for cars. Turner’s House will open for ‘walk-in’ visitors on two