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Exhibitions are online and in gallery regarded as Stead’s when Government guidance allows. most important MILTON Limited edition print of the original painting achievement, with choing something we would all the interior, which ART GALLERY ‘Come Home Soon’ by Alexander Millar like to do these days, Escape features entirely at the Whitehouse Gallery original sculpted in Kirkcudbright (Jan 30-Mar fixtures and fittings, This new, signed artwork recalls an industrial era when the family breadwinner 6) is an online exhibition of attesting to his worked long hours and leisure time was limited. It is one of a collection that revisits the paintings and prints by 20 extraordinary artist’s signature themes of placing the working man in wider dramatic cityscapes. artists taking viewers on a virtual journey craftsmanship. through Scotland with scenes of wilderness, Stead, who died countryside, coastline, glens and islands. in 2000 at the age of 48, is known for There are also images of France and Italy, The Borders home of the late furniture- works such as Cafe Gandolfi in Glasgow, the birds in flight and still life and figurative maker, woodworker and environmentalist Millennium Clock at the National Museum works. Tim Stead has been saved for the nation of Scotland in Edinburgh and the oil industry Framed and unframed and in a variety of after a late flurry of private and public memorial chapel in the Kirk of St Nicholas in sizes, purchased works will be posted free of donations to the Tim Stead Trust enabled it Aberdeen. www.timsteadtrust.org charge direct from the artist’s studio to your to reach its target of £450,000. home. You can contact the gallery to find The family home near Lauder is

First Daffodils Ury – Francis Boag out more about a work or about more works by a particular artist. everywhere. There were more Peploes Visit our website or view The Whitehouse Gallery participates in than works by the other Colourists and the the Own Art scheme, which allows buyers landscapes featured either the cold blue our social media pages to pay for works priced between £100 light of Scotland or the fierce brightness of during lockdown and £2,500 in ten monthly, interest-free Royan and Cassis.” payments. Pictured: Anne Skinner, December Peploe’s grandson Guy Peploe, director Sun www.whitehousegallery.co.uk of The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh, cites Palm Trees, Antibes (pictured), as his favourite work by him. The Kirkcaldy Art Gallery works can be viewed on the Art UK website: www.bit.ly/2NmbIYd.

The Maclaurin Gallery in Ayr is hosting the Crovie – Kanita Sim Ayr Arts Circle annual exhibition online this Milton of Crathes, Banchory AB31 5QH year (Feb 1-Mar 29). Over 100 works can be [email protected] viewed virtually, then purchsed through the 01330 844 664 Marking the 150th anniversary of the birth ASC’s own website. Pictured: Colin Mackay, www.miltonart.com of the Scottish Colourist Samuel Peploe, Loch an Eilean www.themaclaurin.org.uk the Kirkcaldy Art Gallery has launched a „„„ virtual exhibition of the artist’s work from the collection managed by the Fife Cultural Trues. With 46 Peploe paintings, the gallery Order online alexandermillar.com or has the largest group of his work outside [email protected] National Galleries Scotland. The works derive mainly from the collection of the Kirkcaldy linen Princes Square 55-59 Grey Street manufacturer J.W. Blyth (1873-1962), part Buchanan Street Newcastle of which was purchased by Kirkcaldy Town Glasgow upon Tyne Council following Blyth’s death. Blyth was 0141 221 7565 0191 230 4440 the grandfather of the former Conservative MP Michael Portillo, who recalls visiting Autumn at Dalquahandy Farm – Deborah Phillips Blyth’s home: “There were paintings

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Venetian equivalent of walking under a ladder – bad luck.) Analysing a In front of the Basilica of San Marco are the Palazzo Ducale, the Prisons (Prigoni) and the Palazzo Dandolo (today the Hotel Danieli). This is the religious, administrative Masterpiece and political heart of Venice.

Lucy Whitaker is Senior Curator of Paintings at the Royal Collection THE MARRIAGE OF THE SEA Trust. Here she explains one of the most famous scenes in world art, The gilded Bucintoro, the ceremonial galley Canaletto’s The Bacino di San Marco on Ascension Day, c.1733-34. of the Doge, Venice’s most senior elected official, was used once a year for the e are looking at the most THE VIEW Marriage of the Sea festival. At the prow of famous view of Venice This was the first sight of Venice that visitors the Bucintoro are the gold figure of justice, on the day of the most had of the city. From left to right are: the the ducal umbrella and the standards of the important festival in the Zecca (Mint), the Library of St Mark, the Republic. To the left is the Fusta, the Doge’s Venetian calendar – the famous Campanile and the Torre dell’ galleon. ‘SposalizioW del Mar’, or Marriage of the Sea, Orologio (Clock Tower). After AD 1000, Venice marked an held on Ascension Day to commemorate Two huge granite columns are surmounted important naval victory by a blessing of the Christian belief of the bodily ascension by the symbols of Venice: a statue of the first the sea on Ascension Day. In 1177 the Pope of Jesus into Heaven. Canaletto provides us patron saint of the city, San Teodoro (Saint gave the Doge a gold ring and the right to with an exact record of the occasion, but – Theodosius) and the winged lion of St Mark, marry the sea as a sign of his lordship over as always – transforms reality into a work of forming a monumental ‘gate’ to the city for it. By 1267 the two ceremonies had been art. visitors approaching from the sea. (Ironically, combined to symbolise Venetian domination today walking between the columns is the over the Adriatic Sea.

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THE CEREMONY a telescope to get a better view. (Galileo, have been diminished and the Campanile The day started with Mass sung in San Marco inventor of the telescope, also used it on the shortened, while the Zecca and the Libreria after which the Doge and his entourage of Campanile.) on the left are enlarged. The Torre dell’ officials and foreign ambassadors embarked Orologio has been moved to the left and the COMPOSITION column with the lion of St Mark to the right, FINE ART GALLERY on the Bucintoro. It was rowed out onto the Lagoon, where the Doge dropped a ring Canaletto assisted his father as a painter so that San Teodoro is silhouetted against into the sea with the words “We espouse of theatrical scenery, but soon turned to the sky and more prominence is given to the thee, o sea, as a sign of true and perpetual Basilica. The Palazzo Ducale is reduced in dominion”. Canaletto provides us with an width to accommodate the Prisons and the In the picture the Bucintoro has returned exact record of the occasion, Palazzo Dandolo next door. to San Marco after the ceremony, but the but – as always – transforms LIGHT party is still on board. The High Admiral in reality into a work of art. red stands before the flagpole to give orders. While meticulously planned and painted Booths have been set under awnings on the in great detail, the view is transformed by Piazzetta as part of the Festa della Sensa, the painting light-filled views of Venice. His work Canaletto’s attention to the effect of the 15-day festival celebrating the Ascension, became so famous that everyone’s idea of slight breeze, which flecks the waves and which begins on this day. Venice was then, and still is, based on his ruffles the hair of one of the passengers vision of the city. He recorded Venice so under the blue parasol. The reflected spring THE SPECTACLE assiduously that at first sight his paintings light illuminates this couple, while others, In the 18th century Venice was a vital stop can be dismissed as mere records of shaded by canopies, are in part-sunlight and for travellers on the Grand Tour. They reality, whereas in fact in every painting he part-shadow. The water is full of reflections would flock to see this event. The Bucintoro manipulates what he sees, rearranging and and there are shadowy details of oars and was accompanied by gondolas filled with altering what he recorded and combining posts below the waterline. spectators, some in carnival masks. On the viewpoints. small works left a gondolier struggles to slow down to Image courtesy the Royal Collection Trust prevent a collision with another boat. People MANIPULATING REALITY © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II www.resipolestudios.co.uk watch from every possible vantage point. The architectural setting has been altered for loch sunart | acharacle | argyll | ph36 4hx At the top of the Campanile a man uses dramatic effect. The buildings in the distance view all artwork online HIGH ST. GALLERY ART & ANTIQUES SOFTWARE & WEBSITES FOR ARTISTS & GALLERIES Easy to set up, easy to manage and with full support Prices from along the way from the UK’s specialist supplier of software and websites for the visual arts. • Fully mobile friendly websites £5 PER MONTH • Multiple layouts and style options • E-commerce ready • State of the art cataloguing and sales tools included • No additional hosting charges • Optional ‘Express’ service available – your site set up for you and ready to manage Richard Ross Richard Try the system and create your own website completely free for 30 days with no obligation.

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housed in a modern building custom-built Can you spot the trompe l’oeil windows in the Matisse Museum? to display the largest public collection of the artist’s works. At its heart is the Biblical Message cycle of 17 paintings illustrating Old Testament books. The artist himself decided the placement of the works on the walls. Russian-born, Chagall created works in virtually every artistic medium, including paintings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and prints. www.musees-nationaux-alpesmaritimes. fr/chagall/chagall

Located in a sumptuous 19th century building, the former residence of a Ukrainian princess, the Fine Arts Museum has a collection of paintings and sculptures spanning the 15th to the 20th century. Some of the rooms are among the largest of any museum on the French Riviera. Along with the main attraction, a Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Claes ANTIBES collection by the Fauvist Raoul Dufy, the Oldenburg; and a large part of the French- Fifteeen kilometres or so along the coast French School is well represented by the American artist Niki de Saint Phalle’s from Nice, Antibes is the only fortified likes of Degas, Boudin and Sisley, while personal collection, including her rotund, town on the French Riviera. Famous for its Impressionist and post-Impressionist artists larger than life figures, which she bequeathed ramparts, it has been repeatedly depicted include Bonnard, Vuillard and Van Dongen. to the city of Nice. by painters over the years and you can see www.musee-beaux-arts-nice.org The building itself is a major landmark, it through the eyes of artists such as Monet, with towers on all four corners linked by Picasso and Boudin by following The Painters’ The Museum of Modern Art (known by its glassed-in walkways, leading visitors through Trail marked by illustrated lecterns standing French acronym, MAMAC) specialises in the the galleries on a circumference of the on the very sites where the originals were museum on each level. On the roof a series Claude Monet, Antibes, effet d’apres-midi (Antibes, afternoon effect), 1888 © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston main avant-garde art movements in France painted. and the US since the mid-19th century. of arched bridges links viewing terraces with Here the Picasso Museum perches over Highlights include: a room dedicated spectacular panoramas of the city. the Mediterranean. After spending the WWII The French Riviera has to Yves Klein, the leading figure of the www.mamac-nice.org years in Paris, Picasso moved to Antibes in French New Realist movement; a collection 1946. Accepting an invitation from the city’s drawn countless artists of American Pop Art by artists such as mayor to use a room in a former chateau of Blue Heaven over the years the Grimaldi family (the rulers of Monaco), Picasso set to work painting on whatever materials were at hand in the austere, ince the latter years of the 19th in Antibes, Bonnard in Le Cannet and Leger in France. post-war years, including plywood, recycled century the light, climate and in Biot. sail canvas and concrete. Since the other lifestyle of the south of France Behind the trompe l’oeil facade of a 17th museums dedicated to him – in Barcelona, have attracted some of the art NICE century villa, the Matisse Museum holds Malaga and Paris – have no works made on world’s legendary names and Nice is a bustling city with the Riviera’s finest Henri Matisse’s entire personal collection, these materials, the resulting collection is Sinspired them to create some of their best ocean-front boulevard, La Promenade des which he bequeathed to the city. It includes unique in the world. work. Anglais (named in honour of the vacationing his famous cut-outs, often of laurels, leaves Picasso subsequently donated the As a result, there are now a dozen or English aristocracy who paid for its and fruits, as well as paintings, prints, complete works from this period to the city so museums in the area dedicated to the construction) and one of the best city views illustrated books, photographs, engravings, of Antibes, and the chateau became the first work of individual artists who lived (and, in on the coast from La Colline du Chateau, or sketches, tapestries, ceramics, stained glass national museum in France dedicated to a some cases, died) there as well as a clutch of Castle Hill. (Take the elevator to the top and windows and all the bronze sculptures he living artist. The works, which may only be galleries with world class collections. get set to go “Wow!” when the doors open ever made – in all, a visual history of the shown here, are exhibited in rotation, so that Sometimes it seems that every town to reveal the shimmering Mediterranean far artist’s work. www.musee-matisse-nice.org almost the entire collection is shown over on the Riviera has its own art patron saint. below.) The city is second only to Paris for the course of a year. There’s Matisse and Chagall in Nice, Picasso the most number of galleries and museums The Marc Chagall National Museum is „„„

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Occupying a former hotel in Le Cannet, Picasso painted War and Peace on the walls of the The Fernand Leger National Museum in Biot chapel in a former Renaissance priory in Vallauris. the Bonnard Museum has a permanent collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs, with other pieces on loan from museums and private collections. A series of exhibitions explores different aspects of Bonnard’s work. Bonnard’s compositions are typically sunlit interiors and gardens populated with friends and family members. He also painted self-portraits, landscapes, street scenes and still lifes, usually of flowers and fruit. Bonnard owned a small house in Le Cannet and died there in 1947. www.museebonnard.fr While in Le Cannet seek out The Lovers’ Wall, a Chagall-like mural by Raymond Peynet and Guy Ceppa depicting a newly wed couple flying over the Garden of Eden.

MOUGINS As well as the Picasso works, there is a from a busy gallery, it is difficult to sit in the With its medieval streets dotted with permanent collection by the Russian-born quiet intimacy of the tiny museum, literally galleries and artist studios, Mougins has been emigré Nicolas de Stael, known mainly for surrounded by a cry for peace from the home to Fernard Leger, Jean Cocteau, Man BIOT galleries make his works pop out. With treasures in its cathedral. his abstract landscapes, as well as changing master’s soul, and remain unmoved. Ray and Pablo Picasso, who died there in Unlike other artists who have museums almost 350 of the artist’s original paintings, A long-time refuge for artists, Vence exhibitions of work from the main 20th and In the marketplace in front of the 1973. dedicated to them on the French Riveria, drawings, oils, stained glass windows and has been depicted by the likes of Soutine, Dubuffet and Dufy. In 1943 Henri Matisse left 21st century art movements. On the terrace museum stands the bronze statue L’Homme With some 700 works spanning 5,000 Fernand Leger never actually lived in Biot, mosaics, it is the largest collection of Nice to escape the bombing and lived in the overlooking the sea are sculptures by Miro au Mouton (Man with a sheep, 1943), which years, the Museum of Classical Art although he bought a villa there, but died Leger’s works in the world. www.musees- villa Le Reve (The Dream) until 1949, painting and others. www.antibesjuanlespins.com Picasso gifted to the city of Vallauris, his first demonstrates how modern artists have been soon afterwards. His wife Nadia decided nationaux-alpesmaritimes.fr/fleger some of his finest works there. The house (search ‘Picasso’) sculpture to be installed in a public place. influenced by ancient art. This is shown by to create a museum on the property and can be visited and it is even possible to paint www.vallaurisgolfejuan-tourisme.fr the juxtaposition of ancient and modern the Fernand Leger National Museum was VENCE in one of the studios. VALLAURIS exhibits, such as a Roman Venus next to inaugurated in 1960. In its walled Old Town, Vence has preserved It was also in Vence that Matisse A short distance inland the town of Vallauris LE CANNET Salvador Dalí’s surrealist Venus de Milo, a The vast murals in primary colours amazing souvenirs of its rich history: Roman dedicated three years to the design of a is also closely associated with Picasso. Pierre Bonnard is perhaps best known as covering the outside walls demonstrate ruins, ramparts, watchtowers, the remains of blue Venus cast by Yves Klein and Andy masterpiece of sacred art, the Chapelle Pottery first appeared there around 1500 a founder member of a group of post- why Leger is considered a forerunner of Pop the Bishop’s Palace, the chateau of the Lords Warhol’s The Birth of Venus or Egyptian du Rosaire, which he created to honour and rapidly become its main activity. Picasso Impressionist avant-garde artists known tomb reliefs and a painted sarcophagus Art, while inside the spacious, white-walled of Villeneuve, squares, fountains and the learned ceramic techniques in the Madoura as Les Nabis. (‘Nabi’ means ‘prophet’ in displayed alongside Alexander Calder’s workshop of Georges and Suzanne Ramié Hebrew and Arabic.) Spanning the 19th and colourful pyramids and a sphinx by Jean Henry Matisse’s Chapelle du Rosaire in Vence was the first building to be entirely designed by an artist. between 1948 to 1955. Breaking down the 20th centuries, the movement set out to Cocteau. barriers between painting, sculpture and revitalise painting, paving the way for the Other exhibits demonstrate how ancient ceramics, he produced more than 4,000 development of abstract art. monuments, coins, mosaics, paintings and works over the next 20 years and many sculptures are reflected in of them are on display in the Magnelli work by a virtual roll-call Museum and the Ceramics Museum, both of modern greats, from housed in a former Renaissance priory. Matisse, Dufy, Cézanne, Rodin, This is also home to the Picasso War Cocteau, Hirst and Chagall and Peace Museum, named after the two to Modigliani, Giacometti, remarkable murals which are permanently Toulouse-Lautrec, Moore and installed in the former chapel, turning it into Braque. Outside two cast iron a kind of ‘peace temple’. figures by Anthony Gormley War and Peace was part of the 1950s stand guard over the road movement rediscovering sacred art, when leading up to the village. Matisse was finishing The Chapel of the www.mouginsmusee.com Rosary in Vence and Chagall was working on his Biblical Message series in Nice. A far cry The Picasso Museum in Antibes, Photo: J-L Andral

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Pierre Bonnard, L’amandier (The almond tree) dockside © Musée Bonnard GALLERY the Dominican sisters who treated him during an illness. Matisse worked on the plans for the building and all aspects of its decoration, including stained glass windows, Our Winter ceramics and furniture – the first time an artist designed an entire building. Although Exhibition not a religious person, he considered it his Andy Warhol’s The birth of Venus, (1984) is one of masterpiece. www.chapellematisse.com many modern works inspired by ancient art in the Museum of Classical Art in Mougins. continues SAINT-PAUL DE VENCE Utrillo, Derain, Soutine, Signac, Modigliani and Matisse were all bewitched by the View us online! beauty of Saint-Paul as were other artists, writers and showbiz stars. Today the town is still an artists’ mecca, albeit the many

Boy Wearing a Wreath galleries have a ritzy, glitzy air about them. On an overlooking hill the Maeght Foundation has hundreds of outdoor 298 Portobello High St sculptures by the likes of Henry Moore, Edinburgh EH15 2AS

John Martin Fulton John Martin Alexander Calder, Jean Arp, Joan Miro and 07835 813 689 Alberto Giacometti. This private collection velveteasel.co.uk was a true collaboration, many of the artists [email protected] Joan Miro’s Labyrinth at the Maeght Foundation near Saint-Paul de Vence features 250 mythological working with the Maeght family (Aimé Niki de Saint Phalle’s La Toilette (1978, paper maché creations crafted in marble, concrete and metal. Maeght was a French art dealer, collector, & var. materials) is from the French-American Photo: Roland Michaud and publisher) and the architect Josep Lluis artist’s personal collection, which she bequeathed Sert to create site-specific works for the to the city of Nice. (Museum of Modern Art) museum building and grounds. www.fondation-maeght.com Originals A visitor to the Marc Chagall National Museum in Commissions FURTHER INFO: www.cotedazurfrance.fr Nice admires a work from the Biblical Message cycle Giclée Prints of paintings.

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Working to commission and for exhibition, Brian Waugh of Cobweb Tom Cooper combines function and style to create what he calls Stained Glass in Glasgow designs and makes original works for “usable sculpture” for a range of clients, including the Royal College windows, doors and skylights in homes, offices or churches as well of Surgeons, Dunfermline Abbey, Innis and Gunn brewery and as being expert in restoration, repair and installation. Pictured: Red Edinburgh’s Lord Provost. Pictured: Deco Flow office desk and chair in Griffinwww.cobwebstainedglass.com Scottish walnut with sycamore details www.tcfinefurniture.co.uk Hand-made for you & your home

Stuart Whatley of Skye-based Edinbane Rachel Bower of Woven Willow makes This Bubble Bowl in recycled window glass Pottery developed a passion for ceramics contemporary basketry using ‘stake and by Kate Henderson is from a range of clear after the chance discovery of boulder clay strand’, a traditional technique believed and coloured, kiln-textured bowls and dishes. when his father was digging a drainage to have been introduced by the Romans Kate has also created the Summer Shadows, ditch. Playing with it became a hobby then in which ‘stakes’ are pushed into a base to Shelter and Community series of framed, a business specialising in a variety of finishes create a structure around which material (the standing panels made of stained, sand- and glazes on a wide range of homeware. ‘strand’) can be woven. blasted, etched and layered glass. www.edinbane-pottery.co.uk www.wovenwillow.co.uk www.katehenderson.co.uk

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such as behind the scenes peeks into the Sister ships the MS Koningsdam and the blending art, architecture and engineering. Munch Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts MS Nieuw Statendam both have collections Soaring above passengers’ heads in the ships’ and the heritage Museum. Launching this based on themes of music and performance Atriums, it is designed to emulate the feeling year, the next ocean ship in the line, Viking in a variety of media. With works by artists of being inside and surrounded by a giant Venus, will also feature its own collection of from over two dozen nationalities, the musical instrument, with the perspectives original artwork, including pieces by Munch. collections were each valued at around changing as guests move around and $4 million when first acquired, with prices through it. On the Nieuw Statendam the Regent Seven Seas Cruises has a $5 million atrium is capped by a skylight which acts as art collection permanently displayed a backdrop for high definition projections throughout the Seven Seas Splendor. Cruise lines are changing from wispy cirrus clouds floating Comprising some 300 pieces of 20th in an azure sky to light playing on water to and 21st century art by over 200 artists, increasingly turning starlit constellations in a night sky. it includes works by Pablo Picasso and As with all the on-board installations, key Joan Miro, whose The Bullfighter Move to art to boost their factors had to be taken into consideration, is displayed alongside Eduardo Arranz- image such as the ship’s vibrations (which can Bravo’s Bull in...the ship’s steakhouse. The loosen screws), its movement in the water works were previously shown together in Barcelona’s Sala Gaspar Gallery in 1969. ranging from £500 to over £600,000. Some of the larger works were completed on-site Founded in 1873 in Rotterdam (some of by the artists. its earliest passengers were emigrants to The Koningsdam collection in particular the United States, and the original terminal features artists in the early stages of their is now the New York Hotel), the Holland career (it is estimated that, by value, 90 per America Line considers art an important cent of all art sold globally is by emerging component of its fleet and traditionally artists) and together the artworks weigh over the ships have been filled with works 20 tons. Viking Cruises has the largest private collection of ranging from museum-quality antiques to The centrepiece installation on both All at seaEdward Munch artwork outside Oslo contemporary pieces by both recognised ships is Harps, a three-storey, 7.5-ton and emerging artists. stainless steel sculpture with giant spokes Joan Miro’s The Bullfighter Move is displayed Some luxury cruise ships are also lectures on a wide range of topics, while on the Seven Seas Splendor. most shore excursions include visits to art galleries. floating art galleries and ‘hull bending’, a characteristic which Viking has a number of cultural partners allows a vessel to cope with stresses on the around the world where they sponsor structure. ome of the world’s finest for anything from a few days to a few exhibitions. These have included the British The ships’ multi-level stair towers are contemporary art galleries can be months, so they have a far longer encounter Museum (Edvard Munch: Love and Angst), treated as galleries, which passengers can found in Amsterdam. Or Barcelona. with the works than in a conventional art the V&A (Ocean Liners: Speed & Style) and browse as they go from deck to deck. Those Or Monte Carlo. Or Lisbon or gallery. (It is estimated that the average the Royal Academy of Arts (Picasso and who choose to take the lift can tell which Copenhagen or Tallinn or St. viewing time most artworks in museums and Paper and Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The deck they are on by the art they see when SPetersburg or Hong Kong or Miami or… Wait, galleries get is a few meagre seconds.) Here Loneliness of the Soul, which was curtailed the doors open. you ask, they’re in all these places? Well, yes, are some other ‘floating art galleries’. due to the pandemic). A new ship arriving later this year, the MS if one of several luxury cruise ships happens Viking also offers art-focussed itineraries Rotterdam, will also have art on board. to be in port. Norwegian-owned Viking Cruises has the such as The Waterways of the Tsars, which Cruise lines are increasingly turning to art largest private collection of Edward Munch explores the Russian art scene from Moscow The small scale Italian cruise line Silversea to boost their image with a particular kind artwork outside Oslo, with 28 original pieces to St Petersburg, and The Viking Shores & Cruises has a fleet of nine ships. One of of clientele and have amassed multi-million displayed on its ships. Through an exclusive Fjords, which takes in Skagen in Denmark, a them, the Silver Shadow, has a museum- pound art collections which, if housed in a relationship with Oslo’s Munch Museum, place of inspiration for generations of artists, quality collection curated by the art building with a ‘Gallery’ sign outside, would Viking has also been granted the digital rights and Oslo, where through a partnership collector and dealer Michael Judge, which have art-lovers queuing around the block. to the artist’s entire collection. This forms with the Munch Museum guests can enjoy includes works by Dali, Picasso, „„„ The biggest cruise ship in the world, the the basis of Munch Moments, a daily audio- Privileged Access experiences, including 9,000-passenger Symphony of the Seas visual presentation on Munch’s art and life special admission to the private collection operated by Royal Caribbean, has over for passengers to enjoy. of Munch’s printing plates and the museum’s This work by the German-born, New York-based Sandra Spannan 13,000 works valued at some $8 million. Guests can also download a free app for conservation department. hangs in a restaurant on the Holland A big advantage cruise passengers have an on-board self-guided tour of each ship’s Introduced at the beginning of lockdown, America Line’s Nieuw Statendam. over ‘landlubbers’ is that they are on board collection. 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The Newcastle-born graffiti artist Carl Hush has created three installations for the Scenic Eclipse.

Chagall, Miro, Modigliani and others. Judge what will be the world’s largest floating Artmag writer and cruise industry expert himself leads art tours on selected cruises. art collection. Taking inspiration from the Vivien Devlin contributed to this article. A sister ship, the Silver Muse, features sea and nature, the multi-million pound „„„ an Arts Cafe with an eclectic display of art, collection by mainly British artists will as have the refurbished Silver Spirit and the include paintings, photography, mixed media, Natalie Muir has been commissioned to create fleet’s newest addition, the Silver Moon. You reliefs, glasswork, sculpture and textiles. 400 circular pieces of art for the three main Umbrella on the Beach may also find a library of large “coffee table” Featured artists include: Sebastian staircases on the new P&O Cruises flagship Iona. art books to browse through on a leisurely Chaumeton, who has been day at sea. commissioned to produce computer-generated wall Operated by Scenic Luxury Cruises & panel designs; painter Johnny Tours, the Scenic Eclipse features three Morant, whose large scale 10-5 MON, THURS, FRI, SAT custom installations by the Newcastle- works of flora and fauna from 11-5 SUN born graffiti artist Carl Hush, who draws the Mediterranean region are inspiration from graphic novels, animation designed to ‘bring the outside 10 Braemar Rd, Ballater and street art. In a style described as ‘urban in’; and Natalie Muir, who 013397 55888 abstract Pop’, his central focus is the female has created a series of form, from the geisha to anime manga. www.larksgallery.com hypnotic disks finished by mostly using a blow torch The newest flagship ofP&O Cruises, the rather than a paint brush. Iona will showcase over 4,600 works in

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Craig Alan FLAT CAT FURTHER INFO Royal Caribbean (USA), www.royalcaribbean.com Looking Over

GALLERY Holland America Line Scenic Luxury Cruises & Tours Shoulder (detail, mixed www.hollandamerica.com www.scenic.co.uk media), one P&O Cruises Silversea Cruises of the many www.pocruises.com www.silversea.com artworks on Holland Regent Seven Seas Cruises Viking Cruises www.rssc.com America www.vikingcruises.co.uk Line’s MS Koningsdam Evening sunlight on sandyhills on sunlight Evening Seascape and Landscape Paintings by Amanda Phillips

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Neil Macdonald | Winter Light Stromness Street Art Africa, by Cale Waddacor, pub. Thames & Hudson This visually rich survey, the first of its kind, ADVERTISE showcases recent work by over 200 artists and details the continent’s WITH US! major street art projects, collectives and festivals. Taking readers on an introductory tour of the cultural influences and idiosyncrasies of individual street art scenes from Kenya, Morocco, Senegal and South Africa 27 November 2020 Issue 141 to Tunisia, Angola and Egypt, the fully illustrated book elaborates on styles, processes and contemporary visual MIXED WINTER EXHIBITION cultures and puts the explosion of street art in Africa into a social and cultural 14TH ANNUAL ART & CRAFT GIFT GUIDE context. Dozens of gift ideas for art-lovers!

Her Best Side by Garry Harper 5 December 2020 to 28 February 2021 is from the Winter Mixed Exhibition at The Velvet Easel Gallery in Portobello. Featuring work from; Claire Beattie, George Birrell, Georgina Bown, Chris Brook, Davy Brown, Alison Burt, Dominique The Fife Arms, text by Dominic Cameron, Alan Connell, Jimmy Cosgrove, Matthew Draper, Michael Durning, Ronnie Fulton, George Bradbury, photography by Sim Gilbert, Andy Heald, John Kingsley, Simon Laurie, Sarah Lawson, Steven Lindsay, Alan Macdonald, Canetty-Clarke & Ben Addy, pub. Carolynda Macdonald, Neil Macdonald, Rachel Marshall, Alice McMurrough, Alison McWhirter, Sandy Murphy, Jim Rae, Naoko Shibuya and many more. Phaidon The Swiss husband and wife

6 November 2020 superstar gallery owners Manuela and Issue 138 7-8 Stanley Road, Gullane EH31 2AD Iwan Wirth have transformed an inn t: 01620 249389 | e: info@ dra neart.co.uk | www. dra neart.co.uk near Braemar in Aberdeenshire into one of the world’s most enchanting hotels, decorating and appointing it in exquisite Mixed online exhibition with featured artist: detail with bespoke wallpaper and soft These ceramic lampshades by Gavin Burnett and ceramic plate and pourer by Natalie J. Wood are featured in the first ever furnishings, custom-made furniture and Craft Week Scotland (Nov 9-15). Photo: Susan Castillo. 23 Jan - 20 Feb See ARTS NEWS. Jonathan Hood specially commissioned art and crafts along with works by Lucian Freud, Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso and others. This lavishly illustrated guided tour is the next best thing to staying there.

10 July 2020 Issue 121 Skye Through an Artist’s Eye, by Diana Skye ThroughArtist’s an Eye Diana Mackie's broad sweeping canvases are Mackie, pub. Luath Press Skye-based an expression of the moody climate of Skye – abstract contemporary paintings which radiate light and drama. lucy sweet, homes and interiors scotland artist Diana Mackie tells of her love affair This book reveals Diana Mackie’s exceptional talent as an artist of our time. shirley spear obe, co-owner, the three with the island in words and dramatic oil chimneys, skye, 1984–2019 Skye Diana Mackie seems drawn to paint the Turneresque turbulence of the elements on Through an Artist’s Eye her doorstep. paintings in response to the weather’s nicholas usherwood, galleries magazine Diana Mackie ever-changing moods by both day and Skye-based artist Diana Mackie tells of her love affair with the island Ydance (Scottish Youth Dance) is a where it is said you can experience every season in one day. This recipient of funding from the £13 environment is the inspiration for her dramatic oil studies, which night. Painting skies, waterfalls, woodland, million William Syson Foundation express her response to the island’s wild and ever-changing moods, endowment to support the both day and night. Scottish arts sector. For information She paints waterfalls, woodland, shorelines and moonscapes. Rays on new funding see ARTS NEWS. shorelines and moonscapes, she captures of sun penetrating through a storm-cloud, isolated moonlit paths,

Photo: Paul Watt DIANA MACKIE spume rising from a turbulent sea, the subtle beauty of cabbage and rhubarb – all hold a fascination for her. She also recounts the story of the moon paintings she created in memory of those who rays of sun penetrating through a storm took part in the perilous Arctic Convoys during wwii.

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El Anatsui: Art And Life, by Susan Mullin Vogel, pub. Prestel Born in Ghana and based in Nigeria, El Anatsui is best known for his remarkable tapestries made from thousands of bottle tops sourced from alcohol recycling stations and sewn together with copper wire. The resulting metallic, cloth-like wall Loch Moon Anderson Hardy Sheila sculptures are in the permanent collections of many of the world’s great museums. Accompanied by 180 images, the book traces El Anatsui’s exploration of media leading to his bottle top art form, his two decades of art-making and and his desire to express Africa’s history..

HEAVENLY BLUES I saw the light > for JANUARY BLUES Eternally waiting 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th-century church, France, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region

A hieratic, impassive saint gazes fixedly to the sky holding a sword, instrument of passion or struggle, and the palm leaf, that heaven grants her. Is the king her servant or her assassin? Ebb & Flow Stephen Whitehorne Visit our online gallery shop And is the woman at his right his wife? No, these are three holy figures as the pedestals and niches show. Saint Catherine of Alexandria at the king’s side. Eternally waiting, they call out to the rare guest who falls upon this place, which is now only visited by bygone memories. Against a sky-blue background dotted with crosses, the three abandoned statues await the resurrection of a forgotten church. The statuary, which at first sight was thought to be made of beautifully carved stone, is only plaster, as evidenced by the pedestal on the left and its gaping wound. This late 19th-century creation probably deserved more than being abandoned like this. Of course, this commissioned statuary, made in a factory, is not prestigious. There 51 High Street, Coldstream TD12 4DL. 01890 254 010 or 07980 402 755 is no illustrious signature on the base. Is that why it is worth no interest? A whole world is slowly disappearing, despised because it is too close to us, as if architectural and statuary youth were a defect. One day soon the nasty teeth of a mechanical shovel will turn our three statues to rubble. Perhaps a worker will take one last look www.whitefoxgallery.co.uk [email protected] at these sculptures. Will he make a plea to the Virgin to be forgiven? How many statues, left out in the freezing cold of empty naves, will join them? This is the great misery of what was the pride of the 19th century in France: in less than a century, more churches and chapels were built than Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. Wed by appointment. in all the previous centuries. When one of these constructions disappears, it is a small piece of our history that falls into oblivion. Each of these statues tells us a story and bears witness to the beliefs and venerations of a century. Each one was, in its time, venerated, and let us rest assured, the women of the people came to lay flowers at their feet.

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Abandoned Churches, by Francis Meslet, Europe, from a crypt in the Italian mountains interrupted only by an occasional gust pub. Jonglez Publishing Francis Meslet to a tomb in a former convent in Portugal. of wind whistling though broken stained travels the world in search of places which Where once Latin prayers were recited in a glass or the rhythmic drip of water leaking have fallen into disuse. For this book he German church or a children’s choir filled a through a dilapidated roof. photographed places of worship across French Catholic college, there is now silence

A Year in the Art World: An Insider’s View, by Matthew Israel, pub. Thames & Hudson This tell all book by a curator and art historian takes the reader on a worldwide journey through a notional calendar year in the fast lane of art, a world long perceived as closed and obscure, to uncover the working lives of artists, curators, gallerists, institutions, auction houses, art advisors and critics and find out what they actually do. Along the way Israel explores what drives an interest in working with art, how artworks acquire value and how technology has transformed the art EXHIBITION CONTINUES ONLINE world. WWW.TATHAGALLERY.COM

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Talk about giving art a bad name. Huh? (Names withheld to protect the guilty.) Art for your heart and home (The artist) moves (The artist) wants to question between disciplines Stay safe and browse and address the limitations Bodies of work often become a conversation to investigate the of the human condition, between very specific and directly expressed appropriation of revealing the simplicity of how concepts, and the fruits of accidents or qualities, properties, we all travel consciously or experiments. methodologies and unconsciously through the third gestures inventing ways and fourth dimensions of time to physically convey and space. The work is emotively organic, visually transitions. resplendent and embodies layers of intriguing narrative.

Stealing details from architectural forms and (The artist’s) work evokes intangible decoration, (the artist’s) work collides references encounters with non-human experiences of to the everyday with the monumental, often playing with visual similarities between time, space and physicality. disparate sources.

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1 Cambridge Gulf and Estuary, Western Australia 2 Detroit, Michigan, USA 1 3 Lake Eyre, South Australia 4 Betsiboka River, Madagascar 2 3 5 Mount Taranaki, Egmont National Park, New Zealand 6 The Arkansas river running through the Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge, USA 7 Ugab River, Namibia 8 Syrian Desert

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