Dispatches from the Field
What the market’s saying – and what we’ve always seen.
I’m writing a piece for MoneyWeek, for a collecting supplement on alternative investment. It’s a deep dive into how the art market has moved this past year. I’ll share it when it lands. This is something else. Not a summary or a preview. Just a few things worth noticing. The UBS/Art Basel report arrived, full of […]
I Met My Body. Then I Lit a Candle.
Easter Saturday Edition (No. Not a Newsletter. Definitely Not a Backstory.) ⸻ I lost a few followers yesterday, so I thought I’d better tread carefully today. No big statements. No psychic undressing. Just something light. Something gentle. Something like… a person emerging from five days in darkness, peeling off a blackout mask, whispering, “the light […]
From There, You’re Free – The Psychic Architecture of Spring
It’s always a quiet relief when spring arrives, isn’t it? A kind of reassurance. The evidence of life returns – though we’d seen no sign of it for months. No proof, no promise. And yet, it was there all along. Rooted. Waiting. Responding not to pressure but to the right conditions. There’s something quietly psychoanalytic […]
New Blood Art: The Origin Story
A Story by Sarah Ryan – a psychic blueprint of the places, images, and choices that shaped New Blood Art before it had a name.
Dispatches from the Field
Dispatches from the Field
– writing from inside the gallery rebuild – where business, clarity, and voice meet. These are not newsletters. They’re real-time reflections: quietly sharp, often sideways, always authored.
What Holds, and What Unfolds: Emerging Artists and the Long Arc of Attention
Recent insights from the Art Basel & UBS report echo what I’ve seen for two decades: the most active and resilient part of the market lies where we’ve always worked – original artworks under £5,000, carefully selected.
Banksy’s Parody: Are you paying for the illusion of sophistication?
The clue is in the name: Mr. Brainwash – so why do people keep buying in to the sell-out?
Banksy, (if he’s behind this) isn’t just selling art – he’s exposing how easily people accept what they are told has value, without learning to think for themselves..
How I fell in love with drawing – Zuzanna Salamon.
“I remember how I fell in love with drawing; Life drawing had always felt to me like an intense race between my memory and the present, and this is why such classes proved stressful for me when I was in high school. I thought that drawing needed to be a perfect reflection of what was […]
Still An Artist #6
Do you believe in magic?, Do you believe in luck?, Do you believe in ghosts? An ambivalent magic that embroiders every experience – just ask artist Mark Bletcher, who’s paintings fuse magic, mundanity, and unlikely muses. Bletcher’s work is a self-professed compendium of ‘Modern Magical Realism’, with influences ranging from writer Haruki Murakami to British painter Howard Hodgkin. His work, […]
Still An Artist #5
Most paintings require a leap of faith of some sort – trusting an object is real, believing in the life of a landscape, or extending empathy to a lone figure really before us. In the work of this week’s artist Emma-Louise Grady, the viewer is asked less for their faith, than their upmost attention and […]