The language of Japanese colour combinations
I love the pure experimentation of colour by modern abstract artists like Mark Rothko, Josef Albers and Bridget Riley. One of my favourite exhibitions, ever, was by Christina Mackie. Nine-metre-high […]
Category Archives: Exhibitions
Tulip Mania & Bloemen, a private view
So I’ve heard that at one time in Amsterdam, a tulip bulb was the same price as a house. The trading of exotic tulip bulbs in the Netherlands is the […]
Of all the galleries in Paris
I’ll start with a traditional French coffeehouse and the story of a Mexican surrealist artist. A young English debutant who fled her nouveau-riche family to pursue art and a love affair […]
Colour in a ‘techno-scientific world’
Between March and October, 2015, Christina Mackie’s nine-metre-high silk nets hung in Tate Britain’s Duveen Gallery. The pastel, soft fabric trickled down into pools of dense, crystallised dye, whilst a […]
