Owen Gent is a British artist and illustrator based in Bristol, so he doesn’t exactly fit my niche of art from places less explored. Yet this image made such an impact that I cannot resist sharing it.
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I am writing this blog while travelling in Portugal, at a time when Israel is again at war, when the world that knows better falls again into the deep grooves of history’s wheels. So it seems appropriate to focus on a Portuguese artist whose introspective works give us hope for peace.
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Akira Kusaka gives us a glimpse of a parallel universe which opens a window into our reality - or our illusion?
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As we are preparing for a London exhibition of all new works by Georgia’s iconic Levan Lagidze, it’s a good time to share the story of this portrait - Lagidze’s portrait of me to be precise.
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A Hungarian artist, pianist, and synesthet, Gábor Winkler-Nemes captures the essence of genius musicians and composers such as Menuhin, Bartók, and Richter. Their power is palpable even if you are not close to classical music, their personalities transcend the confines of the canvas.
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Mamuka Dideba asks us if beauty is external, measured by the shifting social and historical perspectives or if it lies within, shaped by the imperfections of a life in the process of being lived.
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Mariya Golub captures the inner child who survives in all of us despite the process of growing up, where exists unscathed by life’s ups and downs the sweet innocence of pure joy for no reason, reminding us to believe in magic.
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Whether it’s sunset or autumn, there is something about the colour orange that lifts the soul. For me it’s the deep, burnt-orange variety that is almost physically luscious, like surrendering to the smooth embrace of a spoonful of orange soufflé.
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The hardest journey is the one within. It takes courage to break the safe lull of the familiar daily routine for some time in solitude and quiet contemplation; courage to dive deep for a private audience with your soul, facing the unknown and the darker crevices, a requisite passage towards the light.
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A Lost Landscape - is it something that once was, the traces of which are left solely in our memories or marked by the void left by their passage? Or is it something waiting to be found - a bright landscape of our dreams and hopes, lost only slightly, waiting for us to find our way to its shores?
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Vibrant colours, surreal forms, and lingering shadows cast by the bright hot sun - there is more here than meets the eye. Not much about the work of South African artist Sibusiso Duma has been published but this is what I discovered so far.
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Continuing the theme of light, I was going to write about colour theory and colour psychology, even taking a detour into Carl Jung’s colour personality theory. But there are times when images need to speak their own truth.
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What is it about light? The beauty and power of light to create illusions and play with the spectrum of our emotions has fascinated artists across all mediums and centuries.
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The origins and original meaning of The Flammarion wood engraving are unknown yet the engraving - which is named after its first known use in an 1888 text by Camille Flammarion - is one of the most studied and reproduced illustrations of man's quest for knowledge of the universe.
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Art, wine, and horses, or love at first sight.
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I came across a painting I have not seen before by one of my favourite artists - Nicholas Roerich - and was intrigued by the story behind it. What I found was a letter from Roerich.
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Levan Lagidze’s fictional cities evoke memories of places we love most, no matter where in the world we grew up or which city we later came to call home.
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“Every single thing in the world around us is made up of atoms in motion, molecules in flux. To capture this constant ‘becoming’ — this is what drives me on and drives me mad.” - Fabienne Verdier
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