by Alan Todd | May 18, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
It is not often that portrait painting makes the news twice in a week – albeit it for different reasons. There is nothing new about images of the ultra-rich being hung on a wall and in many historic cases, the painted portrait is the only evidence of their...
by Alan Todd | Jul 13, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Review
Perhaps I should have viewed the two exhibitions in reverse order. After the scintillating colour of one I was left with the sepia toned staleness of the other and even where colour was lavishly applied with a visible brush by painterly artists, the colour took...