Sapling Gallery, Mayfair, installation shot Nestled among the red bricks of Mount Street Mews - not far from the splendour of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, where Evelyn Waugh sought solace - there’s a new light filled gallery in London’s Mayfair, called Sapling. With potted plants outside, its sizeable glass façade provides a first glimpse of … Continue reading California’s Dreams of Coolness: the art of Eddie Ruscha →

The Heart is Not a Home Could it be something to do with the fact that the eye is moving through ever finer, and often ever more finely layered, gradations of a single colour? And that the particular colour in question is of course blue, which drags along in its slow wake a long history … Continue reading Deep Down Blueness →

Georg Baselitz has been much preoccupied by the subject of hands, old hands, recently. His own hands? The hands of others? The hands drawn and painted by artists of the past? An amalgam of all three perhaps. Hands show off and encapsulate extremities of emotion – think of the reaching index finger of God's hand … Continue reading Georg Baselitz and the Graspability of Hands →