Marigolds torch a pathway through fields uncertain whether spring has come early or late. Huts below the mountains smoulder beneath the ice, the clouds scorched with flame. Brooding couples dance slowly through the shadow of […]
Dulwich Picture Gallery will host its second display in the Making Discoveries: Dutch and Flemish Masterpieces series in late April. Ruben’s Ghost, will be a revealing look into the painter’s methods and process. From 26 […]
The wide front door flung open; mornings of nearly midsummer at the Parsonage. Carpentries of step and fence lead to the road, two sisters talk inside amid smell of wood. How cool in the showery […]
Folklore and serene scenes of the Norwegian Jølster create a milieu of mysticism and tranquility at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. To enter a gallery filled with Nikolai Astrup paintings and prints is to enter another […]
Dulwich Picture Gallery’s current exhibition The Amazing World of M.C. Escher is one of its most popular ever. Only two other exhibitions have done as well as Escher in the Gallery’s history. With a huge […]
This Christmas, the gift shop at Dulwich Picture Gallery has taken inspiration from current exhibition The Amazing World of M.C. Escher, on display until 17 January 2016. A master of optical illusions and impossible realities, Escher’s […]
Where is everyone? I am the last person to get off the 63 bus on my exodus from Welwyn Garden City (what I wishfully refer to as “North London”) to see the enticing Escher exhibit. […]
Escher is probably one of the first artists most students are introduced to during their art class. I remember when I was introduced to his work during one of my classes and I was suddenly haunted […]