A Pre-Raphaelite Collection Unveiled: The Cecil French Bequest
Posted 2nd May 2018 in Reviews > Exhibitions
Until 3rd June 2018 Watts Gallery, Compton After originally coming to London as an aspiring artist Cecil French (1879-1953) found his niche as a writer, poet and, perhaps most significantly, as a collector. With a taste for Romantic art the collection French amassed focussed on the Pre-Raphaelite painters, the majority of which are by his favourite artist Edward…
Read MoreReflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites & Murillo: The Self Portraits
Posted 11th April 2018 in Reviews > Exhibitions
Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites – until 2nd April 2018 The National Gallery, London At the heart of this exhibition is a painting which is often perceived to be shrouded by an air of mystery. The Arnolfini Portrait, to use its most common name, was painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434. We…
Read MoreAll Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life
Posted 19th March 2018 in Reviews > Exhibitions
28th February – 27th August 2018 Tate Britain Going into this exhibition I wondered what the overriding experience would be from looking back over 100 years of art through a very select number of artists. Expressions of their inner world and responses to the world around them is a theme of constant interest for us…
Read More“Open my heart and you will see, engraved inside of it, Italy”
Posted 18th February 2018 in Blog
When I get that familiar feeling of wanting to be instantly transported to Italy, there is only one place in London to go: The V&A museum. Their vast Renaissance galleries are filled with art and objects that temporarily alleviate that deep-rooted, tear-inducing withdrawal I feel for a county that Robert Browning and I call “my…
Read MoreCharles I: King & Collector
Posted 29th January 2018 in Reviews > Exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts, London 27th January – 15th April 2018 In desperate anticipation for this exhibition I pre-ordered the catalogue, something I have never done before. King Charles I’s rule divided Britain, and his legacy divides opinion still. There are overriding feelings of his incompetency as a monarch, and over-ambition which ultimately led to…
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