Mother, child & fashionable beach culture

[ad_1] It is easy to see why Emanuel Phillips Fox’s Bathing hour (L’heure du bain) c.1909 is one of the most popular paintings in the Gallery’s Australian Art Collection: sun sparkling on a golden beach; a pretty woman in a lovely dress tenderly drying a little girl; a tranquil blue […]

Lin Yulong: Insertion – Art Plugged

[ad_1] Lin Yulong: Insertion23 April–28 May 2022A Thousand Plateaus Art SpaceSouth SquareTiexiang Temple RiverfrontShengbang St., High-tech District610041, ChengduChina Lin Yulong’s solo exhibition Insertion displays his recent paintings and spatial works. Lin Yulong described his creation as ‘the nesting of different forms of lines and colours’, showing the transformation process of […]

“The Great Refusal” by Artist Jay Senetchko

[ad_1] A new collection of works by artist Jay Senetchko (previously featured here). Playing on the format of traditional Christian altarpieces, Senetchko explores how both stability and violence impact isolated individuals as well as the necessity of violence for attaining and maintaining social stability. Scenes of leisure like dinner parties […]

Art on the Square continues Saturday in Belleville, IL

[ad_1] Art on the Square continues in downtown Belleville Saturday. The annual art event features more than 100 artists from around the world and includes works in ceramics, glass, mixed media, painting, drawing/printmaking, sculpture, jewelry, fine craft, digital/graphic design, photography and wood. The event includes live entertainment, a food and […]

Making a Paint Mulling Slab

[ad_1] Make a paint mulling slab in about 30 minutes – to use for making your own artist oils or watercolour paints. Plus an introduction to making your own oil paints. You only need a few things if you want to make oil paint or watercolour paint yourself. The two […]

Route 66: the legend told by art

[ad_1] Siegfried Huber, Route 66, 2018. Acrylic / Digital print on canvas, 80 x 120 cm. A bit of history… “Higway 66 is the main migrant road. 66—the long concrete path across the country, waving gently up and down on the map, from the Mississippi to Bakersfield—over the red lands […]

MAKING A MARK: $100,000 Archibald Prize 2022

[ad_1] The premier prize for portraiture in Australia is The Archibald Prize – which has a first prize of $100,000. Interestingly it’s not the one which has always had the biggest prize pot (the Doug Moran Portrait Prize has been bigger in the past)  but it’s certainly the one which […]

Winter Morning | Welcome!

[ad_1] Last January, I visited my friends’ ranch in Ingram and painted the Plein air (below left.) The morning was overcast and misty, but as the sun peeped over the hills, the sky took on a soft pink cast. After I returned to my studio I decided to paint 2 […]