Focus Features
Sadeler Family
The Sadeler family were one the largest and most successful of the dynasties of Flemish engravers that were dominant in Northern European printmaking in the late 16th and 17th centuries. They were one of the first of such dynasties to operate as an international firm...
Kenneth Lauder Drawings
Kenneth Lauder is known for his constant experimenting. He had an enquiring mind which led him down seemingly different routes throughout his career. It helped that he was enormously versatile in a variety of media. However, although there is this diversity of style...
Mark Karasick – Traces
Today’s Feature Focus is on a multi component work by Mark Karasick titled Traces. Traces was made as a site-specific installation for the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London, commissioned and exhibited to mark the Millennium in 2000. The...
John Hilliard Coastal Light
John Hilliard‘s art investigates the nature of light. Inspired by walks along beaches, his images are not in any way topographical but explorations of the interplay between light, reflected light, sea and sky. The moods and atmospheres expressed in these pictures...
Peter Hibbard In Stone
When I first encountered the sculpture of Peter Hibbard it was like recognising a friend one had not seen in a while. Peter is an artist working in the tradition of modern British sculpture, continuing to explore a vein of ideas and inspiration that originated with...
John Clerk of Eldin and James Hutton – The Lost Drawings
John Clerk of Eldin (1728-1812) was one of the many polymaths of Scotland’s Age of Enlightenment. He is best known for the landscape etchings he made between 1771 and 1778 , and as author of An Essay on Naval Tactics (privately published in 1782). A third aspect is as...
Pennie Elfick Nature in Abstract
I have been working with Pennie Elfick since establishing my business in 2005. This Focus Feature is a small overview of her painting from the past decade. CAPTURING PLACES Elfick’s minimalist paintings do not have any obvious frame of reference. They are as cool and...
A Walk in the Woods
Woods, copses, forests have long inspired artists and writers. They can be unsettling or calming, used by writers and artists as a metaphor for the light versus the dark, good versus evil, the fantasy world as opposed to the real. These realms contain a wealth of...