Andrew Mackenzie: Still Surfacing
In many ways, although I am painting some recognizable landscape forms, such as trees, I see the work as abstract – aseries of interweaving patterns, lines of different weights and rhythms, dots, negative spaces, balance between subject and ground… The multi-award winning artist Andrew Mackenzie, one of Scotland’s finest and most interesting painters, talks exclusively to … Read more
Emma Wesley Interview
Emma Wesley is one of Britain’s foremost young portrait painters. She has won numerous awards for her work and is a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Her commissions include Oxbridge professors, Johnson Beharry VC and the then Lord Chancellor, Jack Straw. Claudia Massie tracks her down for an exclusive interview for NLP. Continue reading….
An Encounter With the Maestro
In the early Seventies Giorgio di Chirico used to come most days at noon to the Caffe Greco in the Via Condotti in Rome. He was a very old man (born 1888) and he dressed in a dark suit. He looked like a senator and the waiters greeted him as “maestro”. It was a long time since he had painted … Read more
Painting the word
There was a good piece in the Observer at the weekend about an interesting art project running in Philadelphia right now where graffiti artists have been allowed to paint a series a grand murals on neglected facades and rooftops. This is no free for all however, it’s been carefully choreographed by the Mural Arts Program … Read more
