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Sprezzatura: what does it mean ?
Recently I have come across this term in a book on Venetian painting and in an article about portraits. When the word appeared again in an FT article over sunglasses I felt I had ought to do something...
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View ArticleIslington show
I will have a small show at Candid Arts Gallery in Islington.It will run from the 29th February to the 2nd of March, and I will be showing together with eleven very talented artists.Please come and see...
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Book cover
I have recently painted a portrait of Bianca Shaftesbury. Bianca is a lovely lady in her eighties who has had a wonderful and interesting life. She has recently written her memoirs and has asked me to...
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Cool!My little video on youtube (also visible on the website ) has reached 3000 views.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GoPzBqW_BI
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RSPP Show
I have just received confirmation that my painting "The chef and his shadow" has been accepted to the annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, which will open at the Mall Galleries...
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Lynn Painter-Stainers prize
One of my paintings has been selected for the Lynn Painter-Stainers prize. Here you can find the list of artists accepted for the 2008 edition.THE LYNN PAINTER-STAINERS PRIZEThis is the fourth year of...
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Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Opening
The show opened yesterday in a very crowded Painters' Hall. The winner and runners up were announced by Ken Howard in a brilliant and funny speech. I spotted several painters, like Paul Brason and...
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Diarmuid Kelley's new show at Offer Waterman Gallery
Yesterday I saw a show of new works By Diarmuid Kelley in his gallery in Chelsea.I have been aware of Kelley's work for a while, and I especially liked his portrait at the BP show two of years ago...
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Following Piero della Francesca
This summer I had the chance to go on a two days trip to see Piero's works. Many of them are condensed in a small area in the center of Italy, around his birthplace, Sansepolcro.I started from Arezzo,...
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Following Piero della Francesca/detour
From Sansepolcro we headed toward Citta' di Castello, further down along the Tiber valley. There isn't any painting by Piero there, but two interesting museums devoted to Alberto Burri.Burri is a...
View ArticleLynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2009
The list of selected paintings has just been published. I scroll down... and here's my name !I am so happy to have made the selection again. Every time that I take part into juried shows it's an agony....
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Following Piero della Francesca/2
With a little delay this post is about the last day of my summer trip.Urbino is fabulous. We went for a walk in the evening and found out that Palazzo Ducale opened in the morning at 8.30 so the next...
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Alex Kanevsky show in London
Now, is there anyone interested in painting that hasn't visited Alex Kanevski's website ?Alex is a lithuanian painter based in Philadelphia. I have been fascinated by his work ever since I stumbled...
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Sargy Mann at Cadogan Galleries
This is the second time I go to see a show of Sargy Mann works. I first approached his work through the paintings of his wife from a show I saw two years ago, pictures I couldn't stop looking at, and...
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Profile portraits
In the past months I have painted two profile portraits from models. I originally felt like trying a profile after looking at renaissance profiles, not only Piero's famous Federico da Montefeltro and...
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Self-Portrait
In the last year I have painted myself twice. The first painting was done in my studio, I set up a wobbly construction so that both the mirror and the board were on my easel. It took me quite a while...
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Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Competition
In self portraits one can see artists at their more sincere moment. They are rarely painted to impress, rather more to experiment, to express. There are almost two hundred of these honest works on...
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Emil Robinson at Waterhouse and Dodd
I really meant to write about this show earlier, but there's still a few days left before it closes.Emil is one of my online friends, and hails from Cincinnati, Ohio. I was very happy to learn that I...
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Bilbao Foray
I have not been painting for the past two weeks, but I haven't been far away from paintings either. I have seen a few shows in Rome over Christmas, but I want to start from the end: I spent 24 hours in...
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