The Rosebery at Mandarin Oriental Wins Design Award GA Design International won Best Design for Cafe Bar/All Day Dining in The European Hotel Design Awards and here’s part of the write up which mentions the artwork by Orlanda Broom: ‘The art is a combination of the beautifully sublime and joyfully vibrant… Pride of place goes […]

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

“There is a palpable tension and edginess in Sophie Baker’s landscapes. Her deserted frontiers, abandoned quarries and overgrown woodlands bear witness to man’s intrusive activity and impact on the landscape.” All photographs below are by talented Photographer Retts Wood. Within her photographic series ‘A Room Of Ones Own’, Rett explains that she has been …“asking women […]

“The creative objective of my work is to make something beautiful out of dilapidation. My tableaus explore the dissonance between old and new materials, intertwined in the most beautiful way possible to create dreamlike and melancholy images.”    

My paintings are concerned with the intensity of consumer culture – breathing life into lifeless products, making them irresistible and essential to us. Aggressive consumerism is one of the most crucial aspects of modern visual culture, one to which we’ve become gradually accustomed, and therefore oblivious. My paintings are a response to this. Taking something […]

‘DOG HOUSE’ BY JANE HANFORD ‘Dogs can never speak the language of humans, and humans can never speak the language of dogs. But many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that . . . Then there are the snufflings and […]

‘EMPTINESS-SING HER THE BLUES, 2015’ by DURA Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. MEVLANA JELALUDDIN RUMI

‘THE LIGHTHOUSE’ BY NINA GOLDSMITH ‘At that season those who had gone down to pace the beach and ask of the sea and sky what message they reported or what vision they affirmed had to consider among the usual tokens of divine bounty–the sunset on the sea, the pallor of dawn, the moon rising, fishing-boats […]

‘TIGER LILI’ BY CLEMENCE GASTAN ‘Bringing up the rear, the place of greatest danger, comes Tiger Lily, proudly erect, a princess in her own right. She is the most beautiful of dusky Dianas and the belles of Piccaninnies, coquettish, cold and amorous by turns; there is not a brave who would not have the wayward […]

‘UNTITLED (LEGS)’ BY SONJA DE GRAAF ‘I could of course visualize Lolita with hallucinational lucidity; and nursing as I did a tingle on my breastbone at the exact spot her silky top had come level once or twice with my heart; and feeling as I did her warm weight in my lap (so that, in […]