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Art & Nature Series: Anna Bjerger

Anna Bjerger – Acid/Creek (2018) Anna Bjerger’s process uses photographs from her collection of books as references. She talks about how, as a child she was always interested about what was happening in the background of the main protagonist. By using photos she rescues images “that would otherwise disappear” and re-contextualises them through the physicality […]

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Art & Nature Series: JMW Turner

Turner’s desire to understand the world led him to pioneer Romantic paintings, focusing on capturing the emotional experience of the landscape through expressive brush marks and luminous colours. For many years he trained as an accomplished watercolourist leading him to work boldly and quickly. His skills, translated into an eclectic style, led him to paint […]

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Art & Nature Series: Sanam Khatibi

Sanam Khtibi speaks of her work saying, “my women are vulnerable and yet predators at the same time. They are also depicted within the same plane as the animals, who represent power, danger, and our primitive instincts.” While she uses art historical references and traditional compositions, she juxtaposes them with her innovative and unique style […]

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Art & Nature Series: John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent’s watercolour paintings are a rare treat to behold. His skill as an artist can be seen in how he never overworks his en-plein-air paintings, leaving the luminescence of the paper to convey the brightness of the sun. His love of nature and his joy of painting can clearly be seen in mark […]

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Art & Nature Series: Paul Cezanne

For many years Paul Cezanne studied Mount Sainte-Victoire, retreating to his hometown of Aix-en-Provence in his later career. He wanted to be able to depict what he saw in its full metaphysical glory and pushed the Impressionist mode of painting forward with a more experimental and analytical way to depict a landscape. Cezanne was interested […]

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Art & Nature Series: April Gornik

“I am an artist that values, above all, the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful” – April Gornik April Gornik Marsh and Rising Clouds, 2015   Gornik’s incredibly immersive works […]

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Art & Nature Series: Bada Shanren

Bada Shanren (Born Zhu Da) is arguably one of the most influential Chinese artists as he was a radical innovator for his time. From childhood the artist was seen as a child prodigy, painting and writing poetry from an early age and in later life combining the two in his work. Due to his status […]

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Art & Nature Series: Claude Monet

Claude Monet’s magnificent Water Lilies series (1914 – 1926) are some of his most famous works as Monet repeatedly depicts his beloved garden which he treated as a work of art alone, calling it his “finest masterpiece.” Working in the Impressionist style, Monet focuses on the experiential feeling and optical pleasure of nature with colourful […]

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Art and Nature Series: John Constable

“Nature is the fountain’s head, the source from whence all originality must spring” There is no one able to reproduce the heat of the mid-day sun, sound of a summer breeze, or the cool of the shade cast across a panoramic view than John Constable. ‘Hampstead Heath, with the House Called ‘The Salt Box’ (1819-20) […]

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Art and Nature Series: Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth’s modernist sculptures are able to capture the essence of a landscape in abstract form. The interactive nature of ‘Three Obliques, (Walk-in)’ (1968) allows viewers to experience the art’s surroundings with a new perspective, both by immersing themselves in the sculpture’s presence as well as the viewfinder framed by looking through the work. Her […]

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