“To really instil a love of art, children need to be encouraged to have a go and be creative themselves.”
— James Mayhew
In the last three blogposts I have shown how James Mayhew brings life to museums in Katie’s Picture Show, and now in this final post I want to explore how he brings life to the artwork itself.
Mayhew’s story begins in the Classical world. Continue reading
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
― Salvador Dali
“Rome, the city of visible history.”
— George Elliot
If you follow us on Instagram you’ll know that we’ve just got back from an amazing few days in Rome. George Elliot is spot on. Rome certainly is “the city of visible history”. Wherever we looked – whether up at the domes, down the cobbled alleyways or strolling around the Colosseum – history was there.
Turner has some golden visions, glorious and beautiful. They are only visions, but still, they are art, and one could live and die with such pictures.
—John Constable on the 1828 Royal Academy Exhibition.
I know it’s only just November! But I thought I’d share one of my plans for the rest of term. In the lead up to Christmas we are going to go ‘Nutcracker’ crazy!
Tchaikovsky’s perfect seasonal ballet. Continue reading
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly’.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
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There is something about autumn that draws me to gaze up at Continue reading
The latest exhibition to come to our local museum, the Ashmolean, is ‘America’s Cool Modernism’.
So for our ‘artist of the term’ we have Continue reading
CLASSICALLY CURIOUS 