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...“I think of myself as a mixture of a potter and a painter,” says Manessi from her Corfu studio....
...And, as the potter Grayson Perry wrote in his autobiography, you can be as “outrageous” as you like on ceramics because “the vice squad is never going to raid a pottery exhibition”....
...London-based painter Jimmy Merris increasingly incorporates woodcut elements into his figurative compositions (£900-£6,000, via Marlborough Graphics)....
...En-route, discover the Austrian symbolist painter’s explorations of the female form, his explosive use of colour and of gold, silver and platinum leaf, enshrined in the masterpiece The Kiss....
...Art teacher Gyr King, 69, co-founded fine art print business King & McGaw with brothers Perry and Quentin in 1982, from a derelict house in Brighton....
...Recently, however, he has been cited as an influence by successful younger artists of colour including Aria Dean, Sondra Perry and Cauleen Smith....
...Cooper is, in fact, a modest collector of art, and himself a sometime painter, as well as a committed philanthropist. He also plays golf....
...The basement is practical: the boot room hung with a large Grayson Perry opens onto the “nursery room”, with its home cinema and table football, before turning into a kitchen from which stairs lead to the...
...Lewis has an unusual pedigree: working in an English comic social tradition that stretches from Hogarth to Grayson Perry, he honed his skills in Damien Hirst’s studio, then as assistant to Raqib Shaw — both...
...Traditionally, Varnishing Day was when exhibiting painters would put finishing touches to their works in situ....
...At 2019’s Met Gala, Katy Perry wore both a Moschino chandelier and a hamburger; neo-country star Kacey Musgraves sported a neon-pink hairdryer purse. Each went viral....
...The photograph includes three of the 20th century’s foremost abstract modernists: painter Ben Nicholson and sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth....
...In the UK, the shaded centre of this Venn diagram is dominated by the work of one man: Kit Grover, an American-born designer and painter (although he no longer exhibits) who runs his studio alongside business...
...In September, he plans an exhibition that combines late works by the French painters Simon Hantaï and Pierre Soulages with sculptures by Antoni Tàpies....
...Indeed, the spectacle of a self-shredding canvas, orchestrated by a male artist, did distract somewhat from the history made by the British painter Jenny Saville, who in Sotheby’s sale the same evening became...
...She soon took on the archive of the British abstract painter Paule Vézelay and tracked down the paintings of Jack Bilbo, a German émigré artist and writer who had run an art gallery in London from 1941 to...
...The artists and film-makers Sondra Perry and Cauleen Smith [another duo] are also old friends,” Walker says....
...The Oblique Place , by Caterina Pascual Söderbaum, translated by Frank Perry, MacLehose, RRP£14.99 In this posthumously published and prizewinning autobiographical novel, the Swedish author’s discovery...
...Less well known are Felix Vallotton, a Swiss painter and graphic artist, and Helene Schjerfbeck, a Finnish artist, who get exhibitions of their own in 2019....
...For David is at once abstract and figurative, painter, sculptor and textile maker. His work is rude yet dainty, manual yet mind-bending, both high and low, decorative and fine....
...Last year’s Monet success, too, seems to have meant that more of that painter’s work than average is surfacing this season....
...“It sends the wrong message to the entire executive branch,” said Richard Painter, former chief ethics lawyer in the George W Bush White House....
...In a film about Acme, made in 2012 by William Raban, the painter Jock McFadyen recalls taking on a damp basement filled with thriving buddleia plants, and sculptor Richard Deacon talks about his studio at...
...On Friday, British painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is in conversation with Gabriele Finaldi, director of London’s National Gallery....
...tate.org.uk, 01736 796226, from today to September 27 Grayson Perry: Provincial Punk, Turner Contemporary, Margate “Provincial Punk”, says Perry, “is an oxymoron”, referring to the way his ceramics, tapestries...
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