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April 7, 2021
InSight No. LXIV
Irma Stern | Portrait of a Woman After settling in Cape Town in 1920, Irma Stern started making regular painting trips to tribes around the Cape. Working... Read more -
March 31, 2021
InSight No. LXIII
Ben Nicholson | 1971 (two squares and very green) In 1965, Ben Nicholson discovered a remarkable field of ancient standing stones in Brittany. For the next six years, he... Read more -
March 25, 2021
MORAL DIS/ORDER at IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern
Piano Nobile lends key Dame Ethel Walker painting The exhibtion MORAL DIS/ORDER at the IVAM examined the changes that took place in sexuality and morality in Europe in... Read more
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March 24, 2021
InSight No. LXII
Spencer Gore | The White Horse, Hertingfordbury, 1909 Described by his friend Sickert as ‘a perfect modern’, Spencer Gore’s early paintings belong to the world of Impressionism. InSight... Read more -
March 17, 2021
InSight No. LXI
Leon Kossoff | Willesden Junction Not until the beginning of the twentieth century did modern artists shift attention away from railway stations towards the track... Read more -
March 10, 2021
InSight No. LX
Ivon Hitchens | Sussex Landscape Ivon Hitchens’s style was always highly individual. The free approach to colour and design in his later easel paintings developed... Read more
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March 3, 2021
InSight No. LIX
Ithell Colquhoun | Self-Portrait With just one month until entries close for the 2021 Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, InSight considers a self-portrait by Ithell... Read more -
February 24, 2021
InSight No. LVIII
Ben Nicholson | Pisa, 1951 Ben Nicholson produced only a small number of intaglio prints in his career. Each example is marked by pictorial subtlety... Read more -
February 17, 2021
InSight No. LVII
William Nicholson | The Grey Shawl For a blissful period of five years, the painter William Nicholson owned a rural retreat on the Sussex coast. The... Read more
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February 10, 2021
InSight No. LVI
Frank Auerbach | Head of J.Y.M. Like his good friend Lucian Freud, another painter who worked unremittingly from life, Frank Auerbach is known for the schedule... Read more -
February 3, 2021
InSight No. LV
Craigie Aitchison | Alan McNaught and Bird From 1962 until his death, Craigie Aitchison spent much of his career painting black sitters. He once said, ‘When people... Read more -
January 27, 2021
InSight No. LIV
Michael Andrews | Garden at Noel Road Today, Islington is stereotyped as the domain of affluent socialists. When Michael Andrews lived there in the 1950s, however, it... Read more
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January 20, 2021
InSight No. LIII
John Hoyland | 16.9.66 In a special edition of InSight, Sam Cornish considers the ‘pillars of space’ in John Hoyland’s work from the 1960s.... Read more -
January 13, 2021
InSight No. LII
Walter Sickert | The Proposal Picasso reportedly declared that lesser artists borrow and great artists steal. Walter Sickert was an avowed thief, routinely making use... Read more -
January 6, 2021
InSight No. LI
Bryan Wynter | Maremma Though Cornwall was a defining part of his work and his lifestyle, it was not the limit of Bryan Wynter’s... Read more
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December 21, 2020
InSight No. L
Duncan Grant | Still Life with Compotier and Still Life Duncan Grant’s still-life paintings of the 1910s are remarkable for their stylistic variety. However, they were not just technically accomplished.... Read more -
December 16, 2020
InSight No. XLIX
R.B. Kitaj | Fed Up, Again Despite his melancholic temperament, R.B. Kitaj made dazzling paintings which promised ‘not only to do Cézanne and Degas over again... Read more -
December 14, 2020
Director Robert Travers with Kate Bryan in Sky Arts Documentary
The Ruth Borchard Collection THE RUTH BORCHARD COLLECTION IS THE SUBJECT OF 'INSIDE ART' BY SKY ARTS The episode aired on Monday 14th December... Read more
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December 9, 2020
InSight No. XLVIII
Leon Kossoff | School Building, Willesden, Winter Leon Kossoff lived and work his whole life in London. In the 1980s, however, a surge of recognition in the... Read more -
December 2, 2020
InSight No. XLVII
Peter Coker | Fish with Grill Despite being closely related to contemporary Kitchen Sink realism, Peter Coker’s ‘meatscapes’ of the 1950s emerged from a direct engagement... Read more -
November 27, 2020
InSight No. XLVI
Paul Nash | Sea Wall Paul Nash’s time in Swanage marked the high point of his interest in Surrealism. He was immensely fond of the... Read more
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November 18, 2020
InSight No. XLV
Frank Auerbach | Building Site near St Paul's: Winter Building sites were a recurring subject in Frank Auerbach’s work of the mid-1950s. These cavernous, densely painted constructions won him... Read more -
November 11, 2020
InSight No. XLIV
Raoul Dufy | Dans les prairies de l'Eure Horses were the life-long passion of Raoul Dufy. No other animal recurs so frequently in the history of art, yet... Read more -
November 5, 2020
The Late Show: Ben Nicholson
Antiques Trade Gazette | Frances Allitt By the 1950s British artist Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) had achieved international recognition and was embarking on the second part of... Read more
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November 4, 2020
InSight No. XLIII
Gillian Ayres, Choo, 1996 One of the most independent British abstract painters of the later twentieth century, Gillian Ayres’s career spanned the swinging ‘sixties... Read more -
October 28, 2020
InSight No. XLII
Lucie Rie | vases Born in Austria and displaced to Britain by the Nazis, Lucie Rie became one of the leading potters working in... Read more -
October 21, 2020
InSight No. XLI
H. H. La Thangue, Beachcombers, c. 1891 Henry Herbert La Thangue belonged to a generation of talented, unassuming English painters. He worked doggedly from the subject outdoors... Read more
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October 14, 2020
InSight No. XL
Ben Nicholson, November 1959 (Mycenae 3 - brown and blue) Ahead of Piano Nobile's Ben Nicholson exhibition, InSight considers a work which the artist made after swapping Cornwall for Switzerland... Read more -
October 7, 2020
InSight No. XXXIX
Howard Hodgkin | Window (Indian Leaves) After his first visit to India in 1964, Howard Hodgkin continued a life-long relationship with the country. Near the end... Read more -
October 1, 2020
InSight No. XXXVIII
Adam Birtwistle | Tutu, F.W. de Klerk and Mandela At a time of heightened awareness about racial inequality, these three portraits of South African anti-apartheid leaders have special poignance.... Read more
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September 25, 2020
When does a fabric swatch fetch £8,750? When it’s by Omega Workshops
The Financial Times Robert Travers was interviewed for an article in The Financial Times about the prices fetched by Bloomsbury Group artists. Their... Read more -
September 23, 2020
InSight No. XXXVII
Mark Gertler | Still Life, Flowers One of the precocious talents of his generation, Mark Gertler made advances in painting and forged connections among the Bloomsbury... Read more -
September 16, 2020
InSight No. XXXVI
Édouard Vuillard | Marcelle Aron seated in the greenhouse at Ormesson Édouard Vuillard belonged to a generation of artists and writers who were fascinated with the domestic interior: a space that... Read more
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September 9, 2020
InSight No. XXXV
Anthony Caro | Toward Centre In 1960, Anthony Caro crossed the Atlantic. Upon his return to Britain he began producing sculpture that was immediately recognised... Read more -
September 2, 2020
InSight No. XXXIV
William Turnbull | 1-1965 The Scottish artist William Turnbull went between tachiste Paris and colour field New York, and devised a versatile succession of... Read more -
August 25, 2020
InSight No. XXXIII
Fernand Léger | La Rue Fernand Léger’s art brought together the city’s thrumming with the peculiar lives of the people who live there. An ardent... Read more
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August 18, 2020
InSight No. XXXII
John Golding | G III (Y.B.) A masterly scholar and a painter of light, John Golding was a man of divergent talents, beginning his exhibiting career... Read more -
August 12, 2020
InSight No. XXXI
Gwen John | Sleeping Nun In late summer of 1903, Gwen John moved from Britain to France. Arriving by steamer in Bordeaux, she walked up... Read more -
July 31, 2020
InSight No. XXX
Paula Rego | Island of the Lights from Pinocchio Growing up in Portugal in the 1940s, Paula Rego was awed by the technicolour riches and prancing creatures of one... Read more
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July 29, 2020
InSight No. XXIX
Josef Herman | Women on the Shore Josef Herman was a British Polish emigré, bereaved by the atrocities of the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and inspired by... Read more -
July 21, 2020
InSight No. XXVIII
William Crozier | Black Lake In 1964, William Crozier appeared in a remarkable Arts Council exhibition of ‘Six Young Painters’. Amidst work by Peter Blake,... Read more -
July 17, 2020
InSight No. XXVIII
Cyril Mann, Daffodils in a Brass Jug Isolated from the mainstream trends of British art and warring against recurring bouts of mental illness, Cyril Mann regarded painting... Read more
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July 14, 2020
InSight No. XXVI
Euan Uglow, Night Scene Throughout his career, Euan Uglow arranged his female sitters in physically challenging, non-naturalistic poses. For him, the picture mattered more... Read more -
July 8, 2020
InSight No. XXV
Eric Gill | Boxers In the nineteenth century, almost all sculptors used clay to model their work; assistants then transferred the model into a... Read more -
July 3, 2020
InSight No. XXIV
Cecil Collins | The Waters of the Sun From his formative years, Cecil Collins sought to reveal a hidden world which lies beyond the visible. As a student... Read more
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June 30, 2020
InSight No. XXIII
Pablo Picasso | Profils et Têtes Pablo Picasso was a conjurer. Images with a life of their own proliferated from the tip of his pencil, always... Read more -
June 25, 2020
InSight No. XXII
Anish Kapoor | Mountain Anish Kapoor has a reputation for spectacle. His steel doodle – the ‘Orbit’ – loops above East London, while his... Read more -
June 23, 2020
InSight No. XXI
Leslie Marr | Lake Mckerrow, New Zealand In a few months’ time, Leslie Marr will celebrate his 98th birthday. A man of diverse talents, he travelled the... Read more
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