Jeremy Prescott has been looking through the visitors’ book at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Researching for a Friends’ walk (“The London Thames – an Impressionist Walk”, 30th June 2010), I wondered if Claude Monet and Camille [...]
Author Archives: Anna Maria Di Brina
About Anna Maria Di Brina
Anna has worked as book editor for Publishing Houses and as freelance art journalist in Italy. Now she is bringing up her two little daughters and trying to put her finger on living in (South) London.
Inspiring animals: from the British Museum to East Dulwich
A pair of striking animal drawings from the Italian Renaissance are featured in a new exhibition at the British Museum. After visiting the show, Anna Maria Di Brina speaks about her fascination with painted animals [...]
Images from another country
In the recently opened exhibition “Another Country” at the Estorick Collection, ten London-based artists open a visual dialogue with twentieth-century Italian art. I met Deptford-based Glenys Johnson, the only woman artist in the show, to [...]
Capture Dulwich Park!
The creation of an archive of photograps with Dulwich Park at the focus is launched to mark the 120th anniversary of the Park’s creation. Trevor Moore, a committee member of the Dulwich Park Friends, speaks of the event.
Have you noticed how even an ‘ordinary’ photograph can, with the passage of time, turn into a fascinating social document? This has little to do with technical quality. If an old snap shows people’s dress of a certain era, cars from another vintage, or buildings no longer in existence, it immediately oozes with interest
Pastoral Parody
Peckham-based artist Laura Moreton-Griffiths is exhibiting her new series of works at Jeannie Avent Gallery, East Dulwich. Anna Maria Di Brina met her to find out more about the show.
Emily Carr: a Canadian Lesson on Nature
Some works by Canadian artists are exhibited at Dulwich Picture Gallery’s latest show “Drawing Attention” alongside drawings from European master painters. Their acute look at nature hints at something we’d better make a point of… [...]
Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill. A passionate story
Three young artists revolutionized the history of western sculpture, just before the First World War. Their works stand out as both forceful and poignant in this new exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art. You [...]
From Africa to Herne Hill, with pastel pencils
Martin Aveling is a young British artist with a taste for Africa and a talent for painting wild animals. He was recently shortlisted for the Wildlife Artist of the Year 2009 award of the David [...]
