Tuesday 12 March 2024
Serbian-born designer and painter Bernat Klein (1922–2014) emigrated to the UK in the late 1940s and studied at the University of Leeds before developing an international career from his base in...
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Monday 12 February 2024
A black and white photograph by Lord Snowdon of the artist’s gnarled hands covered in wet clay opens this volume. This sparse yet intimate portrait sets the tone for what we learn about Lucie...
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Monday 22 January 2024
This book accompanied a major 2023 exhibition of Arts & Crafts copperwork at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, Oregon. Organized by guest curator Marilyn Archer, it was probably the...
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Monday 04 December 2023
A show which aims to dispel our monochrome idea of Victorian Britain is at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. As Britain’s industrial revolution gained pace, new scientific breakthroughs allowed the...
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Friday 03 November 2023
Owen Jones (1809–74) was a Victorian polymath, architect, designer, publisher, decorative artist, critic and theorist, whose influence through The Grammar of Ornament (1856) continues to this...
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Thursday 19 October 2023
The updated catalogue of the V&A’s collection of studio ceramics is well worth the wait. It is a weighty tome and the companion to Oliver Watson’s much admired 1990s catalogue. Alun Graves has...
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Monday 02 October 2023
Phoebe Traquair was a dynamo of an artist, creating many ambitious embroideries, illuminated manuscripts, easel and mural paintings, furniture decoration, enamels and bookbindings, as well as...
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Friday 08 September 2023
Crammed with excellent photographs this book aims to give a comprehensive account of the work and practice to date of a distinguished sculptor who transcends any distinction between art and...
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Thursday 10 August 2023
In the early 2000s the author of this book sensed an untold story within Haslemere’s vernacular buildings. She began to investigate the story of five local ‘Peasant Artists’ (actually moneyed and...
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Wednesday 26 July 2023
Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869-1958) was one of Britain’s foremost equestrian painters in the tradition of British impressionism. She was an expert horsewoman with an innate understanding and love of her...
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