Journey into Art

This is an update on the Pochade Box I made last year and how I keep paint on the palette.  The box after six months use So far I h...

For this post I decided to explore artists obsessions with their muses starting with the eighteenth century portrait painter George Romney. ...

Bernard Dunstan is in his early 90's and still going strong you can usually find one or two of his works in the Royal Academy Summer Exh...

One thing I thought I would explore is Sargent use of a limited pallette. I’ve chosen five works by Sargent: two portraits and three painti...

Continuing with contemporary painters I thought I would explore the work of June Mendoza who is a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Pa...

Thought I would start an occasional series featuring contemporary painters who’s work I like. First up Maria Kreyn from Nizhni Novgorod Rus...

Over the years Sargent was commissioned to produced a series of a dozen Wertheimer portraits, now in the Tate Gallery, they reveal the artis...

It’s not often that I post my own work as that is not what the blog is intended for but I don’t have the time at the moment to write up the ...

Vann Nath (1946 –– September 5, 2011) When I was looking in to water boarding some time ago the name of painter and activist Vann Nath came...

In Sargent's painting can be seen the irrepressible energy associate with Transatlantic business enterprise of the day, he was a " ...