by Alan Todd | May 17, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Review
Landscape painting will never lose it allure for buyers of art. There could be a multitude of reasons for purchasing a landscape painting from nostalgia to romanticism to belief in an idyll and it was obvious from what I saw today across a number of galleries,...
by Alan Todd | May 3, 2025 | Art, Artist, Opinion
PANIC IN THE STREETS I spent much of my art school time between 1968-70 walking the streets of London and even with a destination in mind, the endlessness of streets and terracing removed not just any understanding of a horizon but any understanding of what was real....
by Alan Todd | Mar 25, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Every artist passes through stages in their career which can be determined by medium, influence or event/location. I am no different. However, what is interesting to me is not stages but beginnings. I can trace the origins of both specific ideas and stylistic...
by Alan Todd | Mar 8, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
There is nothing new about art being vandalised or destroyed – the ancient world is littered with the corpses of statues raised in the name of any number of potentates and pulled down by a successor. Art and politics have always marched hand in hand and...
by Alan Todd | Feb 24, 2025 | Art, Artist, Opinion
A common statement from artists is that drawing is central to their practice. Few elaborate on what they mean by drawing. On the other hand, the general population will often state that they cannot draw at all. Are they talking about the same thing? A quick...
