Curated Collections
Framing Your New Original Artwork
We’ve spoken to artists about their journey of discovery with framing; a topic they unsurprisingly gave some great insight on. It’s also worth bearing in mind that framing a work increases its value. Using a framer you can trust is important, and we can give you recommendations..
Work of the Week: Happy Hippie Home by Ed Saye
“This work is an expansive pause between here and there, now and then, peppered with patches of luminescence.” The creaturely and the mystical, the alien and the terrestrial co-exist in a medley palette distinctive to Saye’s works. From a distance, the composition thrums, muted by the harmonising of the colours; up close, the vividness of […]
Work of the Week: Daytime Illusions No.2 by Rosalyn Ng
A delicate implosion of colour and shapes: this describes ‘Daytime Illusions’ by Rosalyn Ng, in being abstract as well as recognisable as a bouquet. Colourful arabesques fuse toward the centre of the artwork, while around the edges density begins to dissolve. The accelerated, gestural mark-making makes us think of Cy Twombly – who said, “Everything lives […]
The Arrival of Spring: David Hockney and Three Emerging Artists
This March 11th a 1980 David Hockney print of a swimming pool will go on auction at Phillips. It’s a “problem to represent water” says the artist “because it can be anything…any colour”. Here Hockney does so with stylistic hallmarks that have become vernacular in contemporary art over his long and hugely successful career. In […]