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Marianne North
'A painter who travelled, rather than a traveller who painted.’ I hadn't heard of Marianne North until a recent visit to Kew Gardens where there is a...
Frida Kahlo
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.” One of my most memorable experiences of Mexico is visiting La...
Lim Boon Keng
Time to feature some more personal connections. This fine man is my great great grandfather. What I enjoy most through learning about my family history on both...
Eva Hesse
'Shortly before her death, Eva Hesse described her subject as ‘the total absurdity of life’. Indeed, one of the chief characteristics of her work is a vein of...
Hannah Hoch
I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve. 'In post-war Berlin Hannah Höch met and...
Antoni Tapies
13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012 "I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is...
Pedro Abascal
"A keen sensitivity beyond the limits of the anecdotal and descriptive." I was lucky enough to meet and spend time with Pedro whilst in Havana during 2006. It...
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
When I work it´s by impulse. Not in the sense of planning a photograph in advance. I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not by the head but by the eyes. ...
Helene Grimaud
“It must sound completely demented, but new repertory has always manifested itself to me. I wake up obsessed by a piece, or what I know about a piece.”...
Julio Cesar Pena
Julio is an indescribable, one of a kind person. His energy, enthusiasm, commitment and passion for both life itself and printmaking will never leave...