Month: June 2016

Why do we love Chagall so much? Why are we fascinated by Chagall,  the great artist of the Imagination who spanned many art movements, Cubism, Fauvism, Surrealism, and yet who was always free enough to be totally himself and never bounded by any orthodoxy of style? Entering the magical show at Stern Pissarro from the busy street, the eyes and…

Before visiting the Summer Show at the Royal Academy, waiting for my friend to arrive, I strolled down Duke Street in the evening sunlight for a visual warm up. Bernard Jacobson Gallery at number 28, opposite Fortnum & Masons, looked very inviting and cool. A large colourful William Tillyer painting with an intriguing mesh on canvas effect coaxed me in, and…

Charles Newington paints with refreshing unselfconsciousness and fertility of imagination – all the more remarkable for one who trained formally at Byam Shaw, Camberwell and Central School of Art. The exuberant paintings currently on display at Gallery 8 Duke Street express his own symbolic language, reminiscent of Miro and Charles’s hero Matta, but especially of Wilfredo Lam, the Cuban artist.…