by ChrisHeirani | Mar 3, 2001
To the artist Paul Nash, writing his Shell Guide to Dorset in the 1930s, ‘Corfe is probably the finest example of a ruin we can show in England, and that is saying much’. It has been painted by artists as good as Nash and J. M. W. Turner, by distinguished...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 2, 2001
Three hundred miles off the northeast coast of Brazil is the miniature archipelago of Fernando de Noronha. Rising from the ocean floor 13,000 feet below sea level an underwater mountain emerges from a turquoise sea, culminating in a 1,060 foot high peak of rugged grey...
by ChrisHeirani | Feb 22, 2001
A Painter’s Palette | Fernando de Noronha, Brazil
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 3, 1999
Ben Nicholson, whose impact on his own work Gardiner readily acknowledges, is one of a number of artists who have painted still lifes as metaphoric self-portraits. Those that Nicholson painted in combination with landscapes may be understood as metonymic...