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Abstract to Representational Urban Life
Deborah Batt’s catalogue of art embodies both the abstract and representational. As an artist she has gained a reputation for colourful, structured and adventurous abstract work, but has recently been...
Arbitrary Colour and Objects?
Michael Craig-Martin is a principal figure of British conceptual art and one of the most influential art teachers in Britain. His recent works include, painting, printmaking, installations projections and drawing....
Issues of Gender and Identity Addressed Though Ethereal Portraiture
Chechu Alava was born in Asturias (Spain) in 1973, but now lives and work in Paris. Alava paints exquisitely graceful portraits and figurative pieces, with women as the protagonists, portrayed...
Surrealist Cartooning / Comic Abstraction by a Child of The Nineties
Excitingly fresh, stimulating and definitively unique artwork is emerging through young, London based artist Ellannah Sadkin. Her vibrant, quirky pieces are being categorised as Surrealist cartooning or comic abstraction in...
Visual Harmony Created Through Spatial Description
The artistic production and career of John Wragg RA has been long, diverse and prolific. Wragg is both a sculptor and a painter, but as Art on a Postcard was...
What Do Artists Do All Day featuring Dougie Wallace
Last Friday night (8 March) Art on a Postcard hosted a preview screening at Somerset House of the forthcoming BBC Four documentary What Do Artists Do All Day featuring Dougie...
The Ambiguity between Space and Form
Untitled #8 Tooney Phillips works in a variety of materials and ways of working; primarily drawing, engraving and lithography, but also experiments with non-traditional graphic media such as drawing freehand...
The Expressive and Energetic works of Pippa Blake
Arrival III Pippa Blake’s remarkable oil paintings are exceedingly expressive and have a great energy with an immediate, painterly finish. Therefore, she primarily works on a large scale in order...
The Nostalgic Lines of Nick Bridson Baker
Cartoonist and humorous illustrator Nick Bridson Baker produces drawings, paintings and monotype prints. His cartoons have been published in The Evening Standard, Punch, Private Eye, The Spectator, Financial Times, Sunday...
Emanating Illumination
The well established and awarded Royal Academy artist Mick Rooney, has an extraordinary breath of practice. He conjures narrative, illustrative and atmospheric dream-worlds through his paintings. “I am a narrative...
Even ‘Abstract’ Begins as an Ideology.
Untitled Available as a run of 50 limited limited edition 6x4 print I particularly love the large, bold, bright yet minimal oil paintings of Jessica Wilson. Her work, which...
A Thief of Images and Ideas by Tara Hanna
Démodé Party Available as a run of 50 limited limited edition 6x4 prints When looking at the oil paintings of Chilean-Peruvian artist Ivana De Vivanco, I find myself becoming somewhat...
