1. Tell us a bit about yourself — where did you grow up, and what was your childhood like? How did you start painting? Do you remember the moment when you realized that you would spend your life as an artist? I was born in 1986 and spent my childhood…

a review of “Endangered Species: Life on a Hostile Planet” by John Wellington On the day that Marshall Jones and I talked for this piece, his reddish hair was coiffed in a near Mohawk and he wore one of his signature Misfit t-shirts featuring a distorted skull graphic. The Misfits…

an interview with Chelsea Gustafsson Tell us a bit about yourself, both as a person and as an artist? What is your creative background, and when did you realize you were committed to a life as an artist? I grew up in a small community in rural Victoria, Australia. For…

an interview with Vanessa Foley Tell us a bit about yourself, both as a person and as an artist. Where did you grow up, and how did you realize that you would spend your life as an artist? I’m from Newcastle in the North of England, it’s a small and…

a review of “Natural History” at Forum Gallery by by Kim Power “It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection”. (Nobel Lecture (11 Dec…

By Diana Corvelle As this long winter finally draws to a close, here are some artists who were undaunted by snow, cold and rain. Their plein air practice continued no matter how extreme the conditions got, and the work they made is beautiful and brave! David Pettibone Close year-round observation…

an interview with Andrey Kartashov Tell us a bit about yourself, both as a person, and as an artist. What was your childhood like, and do you remember how your interest in art develop? Every child has an inclination towards drawing. For most people this disappears as an attribute of…

Here are the artists changing the landscape of the art world this year. Their work will make you think, feel, and pay attention to the world in a new way. Alyssa Monks There is a beautiful sensuality to Monk’s luscious figurative paintings. Her subjects are often presented with barriers between…

by The Escritoire If you trace the history of sketchbooks, you’ll find that although paper wasn’t always bound up into leather Moleskines, sketchbook contents haven’t changed much in the past few centuries. History’s pages (yes, pun intended) show a mish-mash of visual and lexical note taking. Da Vinci’s sketchbooks included…