On Tuesday we delivered two free Shibori workshops at the PRISM exhibition Edgelands at the Art Pavilion. Both were a great success with participants travelling from as far a field as Wales to attend and see the show. We had return visitors who attended Ross’ contact printing workshops last year and a lady who we…
PRISM Edgelands
PRISM Edgelands, the exhibition at the Art Pavilion, Mile End, which runs until Monday evening has once again been a triumph. It is wonderful to see such a great range of artist who are pushing the envelope of the definition of what a ‘textile artist’ is. No longer are there just weavers and embroiderers, though…
Capturing the Moment
When is a great show actually a mediocre exhibition? When the bulk of the works on show come from a private exhibition and you’re trying to hang a theme around it, like Capturing The Moment at Tate Modern. Its ends up feeling contrived so I left the exhibition thrilled to have seen some amazing works…
Red, Blue and Yellow – the Florence Trust Artist in Residence Workshops
Well, as they say, that was the week that was! We have the delivered our first series of Taster Workshops as Florence Trust Artists in Residence at our new home in Holy Trinity Church, Cloudesley Square, Islington. We are so lucky to have such a great space so close to home and we’d like to…
Venice By Day
A friend of mine congratulated me on my Venice photographs and commented that it had been very refreshing not to see the traditional Canaletto views in my images, but when in Venice… It a challenge to visit somewhere so famous and beautiful and still be able to frame images that offer something new. Venice by…
Venice – God is in the Details
Details can often offer insights to a city that more traditional views, though there will be those in the last Venetian post. The images here are details that caught my eye – a stunning ceiling of the Santa Maria dei Miracoli, a street lamp the perfect perch of for pigeons, a dog strutting into shot…
Venice – Peggy Guggenheim Collection
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is one of the most important museums of twentieth century art in Italy. It is located in Peggy Guggenheim’s former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice. ‘I dedicated myself to my collection. A collection means hard work. It was what I wanted to do and I…
Venice – Museo Fortuny & Joan Fontcuberta
Born in Granada in 1871, Mariano Fortuny was the son of an artist and quickly found a place within the art and social world of Paris, the city in which he completed his studies as a painter. A renaissance man, his interest shifted from painting to stage set design (with works such as those for…
Venice – Davide Battistin, Genesis
One can lose and rediscover oneself in the dreamlike, surreal, extra-ordinary Venice portrayed in the colours and atmospheres created by Davide Battistin. A revelation at the beginning of the new millennium, the artist has, in recent years, become a much sought-after poet of a city that is as evanescent as it is profoundly real in…
Venice at Night
Venice is such a wonderfully photogenic and atmospheric city, whatever the weather and time of day. From dusk and sunset through to the darkest indigo night skies, it takes on a magical quality. The lagoon setting seems to produce the most wonderful sunsets. Our plane landed at around five which meant that by the time…
Venice – Dinner and the Opera
Venice is perhaps best known for it’s beauty and the canals, but it is also known for it’s wonderful food. Situated in the Laguna di Venezia, the local seafood and produce is wonderful. In a place that is a magnet for tourists the world over, it can sometimes be difficult to find great restaurants or…
Venice – Murano, Burano & Torcello
The first time I visited Venice in the late 90s, it was only for 5 days and we didn’t manage to visit any of the islands apart from Murano. With a week pass for the Vaporetto, Mum and I remedied that this visit. Sadly I still didn’t make it to the Isola di San Michele…
Modern Eccentrics 