Dispatches from the Field

Masters artist Peter Kettle has created a remarkable collection of mixed media paintings incorporating rubbish he helped clear during an expedition to Everest Basecamp.The collection – Everest Basecamp Is the culmination of a 14-day trek Peter made last year in a bid to help clean up rubbish… See for example the piece: Prayer Flags Above Dingboche – where the flags are built […]

There are plenty of overlaps between art forms… particularly between literature and visual art, and as it’s National Poetry Month – yes, there is such a thing (!) and as this influence often goes unseen… I wanted to shine a light on the many ways in which words inspire our artists. For Toni Cogdell, poetry […]

Own Art in conversation with Sarah Ryan, founder and director of NewBloodArt NewBloodArt is a niche / boutique online art gallery, selling unique, original art by carefully selected emerging artists. We sat down with its founder and director, Sarah Ryan, to find out more about her background and work as a gallerist and the challenges […]

“As a maker of images and narratives, the stories and situations that populate and reside within my work are directly extended from memory and my own sense of self in relation to place. There lies a nostalgic undertone that is, at times, compromised by a sense of threat – a culmination of sentiment and reality. […]