(above) Keren Luchtenstein’s ‘Princess Shoes’ painting in Paul Smith’s flagship store New York.  

Blair McLaughlin is an award winning artist who I first came across in 2014 at his BA degree show in Dundee. Since graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Blair has been long-listed for Saatchi New Sensations 2014, awarded the Dewar Arts Award, which supports talented young artists in Scotland and completed […]

A large untitled black canvas, layered with illegible script-like white lines sold for over £19 million in auction at Christie’s this year. The artist, Cy Twombly (1928 – 2011) emerged in New York in the mid fifties as a prominent figure among a significant group of artists that included Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Twombly created […]

Emiko Aida is an award-winning artist, recipient of the 2nd prize at the National Open Art Competition in 2014, Winner of the International Print Prize – Guanlan Print Biennial in 2011 and widely exhibited both in the UK and Internationally. Emiko produces beautiful, limited edition aquatints – always creating immersive atmospheres: whether depicting the grey […]

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 some questions. Here are some of their answers: Do you have any rituals or routines to help the creative process?
 ALICE […]

‘ROOM OF DEMENTIA- BROKEN PIECES, PAGE: 2 SECONDS TO REMEMBER’ BY EWELINA LABUDA ‘If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.’ ERNEST HEMINGWAY

‘EMILY FALLING IN THE LIBRARY’ BY VIKRAM KUSHWAH ‘Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming […]

‘DANDELION’ BY RUDI KEATS ‘Simple and fresh and fair from winter’s close emerging, As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been, Forth from its sunny nook of shelter’d grass—innocent, golden, calm as the dawn, The spring’s first dandelion shows its trustful face.’ WALT WHITMAN

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: – Michaela Hollyfield The moment when you are at a party (for example) and someone asks: ‘What do you do?’ […]