On a short holiday break I learned about Otto Pankok ((1893-1966), a German “charcoal painter”, and his daughter Eva. In the hotel we stayed I enjoyed a permanent exhibit of large plein air oil paintings done by Eva Pankok between 1972 and 2009 in Provence (slide show). Unfortunately there are not many good images of [...]

Who Knows – what Kurt is doing.

On the weekend we visited the art fair at Karlsruhe. I was very much surprised and pleased to see works of one of my absolute favorite artists in drawing and to meet the artist Namgoong Whan in person. I had admired his drawings on the web for some time already. Unfortunately the personal website was [...]

Thanks to Drawing allowed I was introduced to the work of Kurt Jackson. Sometimes it seems that there is no chance for the new or fresh but then you stumble on something again that leaves a deep impression and makes for a source of inspiration. I have never seen someone treating acrylic colors so sensitive, [...]

I am very much interested and inspired by illustration and not what is usually addressed as art. Today I want to post links to two great illustrators: Charlotte Hardy and Michael Rytz. I use springpad.com to keep todo lists and other notes. Most of them are private, but one is used as kind of link [...]

John Piper ‘Stowe’ from goldmarkart.com on Vimeo. Here is a short sequence from a video on John Piper published by Goldmark Gallery. Stowe is such an impressive landscape garden. John Piper spend a lot of time there and created amazing prints. His bold, inventive use of lines,forms and colours is very inspiring. Goldmark has quite [...]

As a John Piper fan you sooner or later get on the websites of Goldmark gallery. Recently they have started to send emails to their contacts and that way this video landed in my inbox. I never heard of the guy and I can’t relate a lot to the driftwood animals he does. Those look [...]

George Rowlett is one of my favorite plein air painters. His Gallery has put up two videos showing the artist at work painting on the Outer Hebrides and East Kent earlier in March this year. In an older interview the artists said that he tries to paint as fast as he can. If you compare [...]

Today I want to point out to artist Mara Korkola and her small winter landscapes. The format is modest, but somehow the views she paints seem bigger. The presentation in triptych might give to that effect, but does not explain it in full. I like the clarity and stillness in these images which I have seen so [...]

Unfortunately I can’t remember where and how I found this film and the portfolio of the artist Alice Shirley.  The artist does amazing ink drawings.