Woman Reading and The Oasis of Matisse
The Oasis of Matisse – billed as the largest ever exhibition of Henri Matisse’s work in the Netherlands; and as the first Matisse retrospective of any size in the country for fifty...
La Unión & La Cala: Instagram XII
If my last Instagram piece could be loosely conceptualised as visual history – depicting briefly in words and in photographs the city of Cartagena in the region of Murcia, in south-eastern Spain:...
Daily Visual 24.06.15: Barbara Hepworth at Tate Britain
Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World opened today at Tate Britain. The exhibition will run until 25 October. It is the first major Hepworth exhibition in London for almost fifty years....
Miscellaneous Photo Series I
A disparate collection of photographs here, taken in different places over a period of several months, less a series than a frayed string. There are sixteen in all: the first a group...
Daily Visual 12.06.15: Garage Museum Opens in Gorky Park
Today Garage Museum of Contemporary Art opened in a new space in Moscow. Founded by Dasha Zhukova in 2008, Garage took up provisional residence in the building of the former Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage: an...
Pyotr F. Sokolov: Watercolour Portraits in the Age of Pushkin
Beyond the Cyrillic curve and the printed page, if the Golden Age of Russian poetry has a visual representative it may lie in the works of Pyotr F. Sokolov. From the early...
Cartagena, Spain: Instagram XI
Most years for many years, my family and I have holidayed at La Manga Club, in the Murcia region in south-eastern Spain. Situated between the Mediterranean Sea and the Mar Menor, which with a...
Cloughton Wyke: Instagram X
This series of seventeen photographs, taken at the beginning of last summer, incorporates a York sunset in bands of gold, pink, and blue; a Mallard duck and her ducklings; three views of the countryside...
Amsterdam Photo Series: Ons Buiten and Around
Ons Buiten (literally ‘Our Outside’) is the name for a collective of garden parks across the Netherlands, whose Amsterdam branch is on the southern outskirts of the city: situated along the northern...