NEW COLLABORATION The Humber Estuary provides me with a huge source of inspiration and ideas for my paintings. Because of this interest I have been invited to collaborate with Beverley Museum and Art Gallery for a show on The Humber. The show will be in May 2017 to coincide with Hull as the City of […]

David Shrigley’s advice to young artists – shared from Louisiana Channel

“You’re on the right track if you’re excited about what you’re doing.” – David Shrigley

My paintings have often been a response to the term ‘Mother’: both the beauty of motherhood and the anxieties that accompany it. The figure of the mother was always present nursing the child. More recently the work has focussed on the fruitfulness and fecundity of life in all its forms but principally the absorption in […]

The degree shows are the perfect place to discover fabulous original art by talented emerging artists and though not widely attended they are open to the general public. The degree shows are a culmination of art students work over the course of their degrees and as the artists are right at the start of their […]

In his Reith lectures Grayson Perry called artists “Pilgrims on the Road to Meaning”. At New Blood Art we wanted to gain insight into our artists personal roads to meaning so we asked them 3 questions: Rob Lyon The moment when you are at a party (for example) and someone asks: ‘What do you do?’ […]

The world’s largest philosophy and music festival returns to Hay-on-Wye – How The Light Gets In  runs from 26th May – June 5th 2016.  Bringing together 700 carefully curated events that will make you think, talk, dance and play in the beautiful setting of Hay.. Nobel Prize-winners and Mercury Prize-nominees alike gather in one place for a week of […]

Anne Baudequin’s paintings of still life have rich, impressionistic presence. Working from life in “alla prima” allows spontaneity, and an ability to capture fleeting, sun cast shadows. Baudequin’s still life arrangements of fruit are painted in subtly sumptuous colour and there’s a sense of the objects being touchable. Harmonious compositional relationships characterise each piece.   […]

John Moores Prize 2016 – Enzo Marra selected. Enzo Marra’s ‘Invigilator (John Virtue)’ has been selected for the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize Exhibition; the prize was launched in 1957 with the aim of showcasing “the best and most vital work being done today throughout the country”. Enzo Marra is one of 54 exhibiting artists […]

William Arnold is a photographer influenced by the first pioneers of the medium and perhaps of the theory that has pervaded photography since its birth. Sir William Newton, the academic painter, declared in 1853 that photography could never capture the ‘atmospheric veil’ which nature throws across the world, and yet Arnold seems to both refute […]

The play between myth and reality is explored with a political edge in the work of Oliver Bragg. Materialism, capitalism and globalization are explored in relation to technology’s export of humanity from its natural environment. Bragg’s work suggests a turn towards simplicity and the folk tradition of myth to develop our sense, once again, of […]