No more taxidermy I promise! As I mentioned before the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature has a really good contemporary art programme.I really like the fact that they make interventions in the collection, with contemporary pieces appearing along side the main collection.Here...
One of my favourite museums in Paris is the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature. It's a museum about nature and hunting, what's not to like! Well if you don't like taxidermy then it's probably not for you, as it is basically a museum...
I have just spent the week in Paris and I am in love. I never tire of wandering round the streets of Paris, with no agenda, just seeing where my feet take me. My favourite area is the Marais, where we always stay. There is...
and this is what I sawthere's my piece, along with 4 red dots (yay!). It was in a really good position surrounded by some other really great work and other artists I know, Francisca Prieto (part shown above) and Chris Kenny (above right) And most excitingly right next...
Time for my next in the series on my fellow Perrier-Jouet Arts Salon members. This time I'm introducing Claire Coles.Claire is a textile artist, specialising in making large embroidered couture wall papers and panels. She draws with a sewing machine in the same way as...
I first saw Susie's work when I was up in Manchester last year. The first piece of her work I saw was this pieceIt is quite hard to capture the beauty of the piece in a photograph. I looks from a distance like it's made...
Resistance to the power of flowers if futile. There is something about how they can cheer you up even on a grey day, it's hard to be sad looking at flowers.I'm sitting here writing this as the weather veers between pouring rain and bright sunshine...
The First Cut exhibition is on the first stop of its tour, in the Djanogly Gallery in Nottingham. I was up there a couple of weeks ago to install The Harbingers and also attend the opening.The exhibition has a very different feel as there are...
During my recent trip to Madrid, I visited one of my favourite museums, the Reina Sofia, or to give it its full title, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. I love the permanent collection they have, and when I used to live in Madrid...
Well you can, with me!I'm doing a workshop at the London Transport Museum on 17 May. As part of their Brightest London Friday late.You will get the chance to make a small botanical paper cut.The full details are on the London Transport Museum website. The...