During this lockdown period we have heard a lot said about once bustling regions and places being bereft of the throngs once taken for granted. This has had a positive, and as time goes on, an increasingly negative affect. The poor Venetians spring to my mind. Many weeks back we marvelled at the sight of […]
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During this strange period we are currently living through my mind as been drawn to some of the walls of my house. During our normally very busy lives we sometimes don’t have the luxury of time to dwell upon those interior dilemmas closer to home. Fuelled with a sense of purpose and urgency I launched […]
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As we have had Whit Sunday we are now, by tradition, in to the first holiday of the Summer when much merrymaking does occur. Some of these strange rural, nay pagan, amusements have remained – the traditional Morris dance being one. Incredibly Will Kemp, a Shakespearean actor, Morris danced all the way from London to […]
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The archive of the late great art historian Brian Sewell has just become available to view online you can find it here. Whether you loved or hated him – and many in the art world did – he was a fascinating and colourful writer who stood out as extraordinary in an extraordinary profession. The Paul […]
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On the wall above where I write is a fine engraving of a tragic politician whom I’m reminded about today, for on this day 208 years ago the first and only British Prime Minister to date was murdered in the House of Commons. Poor Spencer Perceval had been minding his own business and making his […]
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Today and over the weekend many will be commemorating VE Day – May 8th 1945 being the day that hostilities in Europe ceased and people were insanely happy to be rid of war – well mostly, though there was the matter of the continuing hostilities with Japan which would be resolved three months later. However, […]
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Rupert studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Bartlett School of Architecture. He specialised in the methods and materials of artists, developing his own unique method of painting in the almost forgotten medium of egg tempera. Rupert went on to complete his MA in Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich. Today Rupert runs […]
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In 1944, Mark Rothko said of one of his works that it dealt ‘not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times… It involves a pantheism in which man, bird, beast and tree – the Known as well as the Knowable – merge…’ […]
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These seaweed presses would have been collected by an amateur botanist during a study of marine plant life in the late 18th century. At this time there was considerable interest in the natural world which ultimately led to scientists such as Darwin to stumble upon the great theory surrounding evolution in the mid 19th century. […]
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Taking a closer look at four portraits available to view at Timothy Langston Fine Art & Antiques featuring women in history: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, the Marquise de Maintenon, Louise de Bourbon and a Portrait of a Lady. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was a social icon, author and political activist. She was as famous for […]
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“It’s funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke Frames: the subordinate assistants to the art they support? When reflecting on some of the greatest paintings in public collections today there would be few people who could describe, in detail, […]
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The practise of gilding is an old art dating back at least 3000 years in Egypt where it was used in the decoration of woods, metals and paintings of the period. Ancient Egyptian paintings even illustrate gilders at work, revealing methods similar to techniques used in the present day. Gilding is distinguishable from any imitation forms […]
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