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  • Jaume Plensa

    Just when you think Barcelona couldn’t get anymore beautiful, you’re introduced to Flora, who basks in the Spanish sun against a background of Gaudí’s La Pedrera-Casa Milà.   The artist: Jaume Plensa,…

    31 August 2023
    Musings of a Modernist Mind

  • In Memory Of Mark Speight

    WOW! Sometimes you find things that transport you right back in time, as if it only happened yesterday. I found this flyer for the ‘colour’ exhibition in which my school art department…

    31 May 2023
    Musings of a Modernist Mind

  • Letters to Mama

    I am close to completing my research on Frida Kahlo (for this project at least), ready for my final art piece. Having watched the fantastic BBC documentary, Becoming Frida Kahlo, I was compelled…

    30 April 2023
    Musings of a Modernist Mind

  • Creative Space

    As I grow in my career, I recreate a vector showcasing my creative space at home. While working on my latest one, I found the original I created back in 2013. It…

    30 November 2022
    Musings of a Modernist Mind

  • The Scream

    Painted in 1893, I used to think the figure in Edvard Munch’s The Scream, was screaming. In fact, the painting is based on Munch’s personal experience of an anxiety attack while out for…

    30 September 2022
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  • Homage to Dalí

    “There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.” Salvador Dalí   You are not wrong Dalí! I don’t know if you remember but back in October…

    30 June 2022
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  • The Art of Wallpaper

    Who knew that wallpaper is so interesting?   I headed over to The Art of Wallpaper – Morris & Co. exhibition at Dovecot Studios with the assumption I would be there for…

    31 March 2022
    Musings of a Modernist Mind

  • 2021 Creative Round-Up

    2021: what a year!   Work Many of my clients have been forced to adjust their lives in the midst of pandemic life. Some have had no repeat funding or have unfortunately…

    31 December 2021
    Musings of a Modernist Mind

  • Gentle Disturbances

    Christo Vladimirov Javacheff  (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009) were life partners in every way. They shared their vision with the art world through epic environmental installations – referred to by Christo…

    30 September 2021
    Musings of a Modernist Mind

  • The Diary of Frida Kahlo

    “All of this in order to say that Kahlo entered her box in the second tier of the theater, all of these splendors and distractions came to nought. The jangling of sumptuous…

    31 August 2021
    Musings of a Modernist Mind