Landscape with Clouds

I love the way every inch of the paper is used in this oil painting - a huge landscape squeezed on to an a5 sketchbook page

Paisaje con nubes

Victor Julio González, 2016

Alice Neel

One of the many joys of London is that having time to burn is often a blessing, as I found last week while waiting for a friend to finish work.  Nearby was the Victoria Miro Gallery and a retrospective of American painter Alice Neel's work. What a great show - full of life and vibrancy. Neel sounds like she was a pretty fab, painting and living in New York with her children and long term latino lover, her work focusing on local subjects.

Alice Childress, 1950

Girl with Pink Flower, 1940s

Anselmo, 1962

Victoria Miro

16 Wharf Road N1 7RW

On until 29th July 2017

Bow shoes

Imagine my happiness this morning when at the National Gallery, I realised my latest shoe purchase would not look out of place on the foot of an early 19th Century landscape painter:

Louis-Auguste Schwiter, 1826-30

Eugene Delacroix

Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon

Loved the small but brilliant exhibition of Peter Lanyon's paintings of the Cornish landscape, inspired by his adventures in his glider. These versions of the landscape, wild and full of movement, definitely felt  like the Cornwall I know.

 High Ground, 1956

 Silent Coast, 1956

High Wind, 1958
At the Courtauld Gallery, ending this weekend 

Painter's Studio

A taster of some work I did recently for The Ones 2 Watch. 

We shot in a working artist's studio, who was obviously something of a Rothko fan... I've been wanting to shoot in a painter's studio for a while - my art history days kept coming back to haunt me with lots of images of painters at work. Lucian Freud and Frances Bacon always looking like the cooelest of the lot, and the most sinister in those darkly lit black and white photographs.

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Shot by Andre Skjegstad

Hair & Make up Marlene Andersson

Model Phillipine Urvois at Models 1

Sorolla's House

The tile theme continued  (see last week's Celine post): these are from the Spanish painter Sorolla's house in Madrid, which I visited last week before catching a flight home - with a heavy heart - after an amazing few days holiday.