William Morris – Beauty of Practicality
2023-03-27
Morris believed his responsibility was “to revive a sense of beauty in home life, to restore the dignity of art to household decoration.Read More →
Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) – Symbolism and Metaphor
2023-03-19
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist that lived most of her life and physical pain, yet she continued to paint until her death, her artwork records her suffering and experiences as a woman. She was born to a Mexican mother and a German father.Read More →
Ansel Adams – attention to detail is everything
2023-03-07
Ansel Adams was one of the great photographers of the 20th century. Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco, and he began to take photographs in the High Sierra and Yosemite National Park, with which much of his name is permanently associated, he became a professional photographer in 1930.Read More →
Time-Lapse Photographs Capture Swarms of Airplane Lights
2021-11-14
Pete Mauney has been interested in observing the dizzying patterns of planes at night since high school. As a teenager the photographer would watch aeroplanes have they circled Manhattan, imagining their trajectories and how they might intersect.Read More →
Northern Lights – colour palette
2021-10-25
Northern lights are a result of the collision of gaseous particles in the Earth’s atmosphere. This palette I created from the deep and cosmic colours of a photo taken in Estonia. I have called it Aurora.Read More →
Adult Colouring Books the new bestsellers
2021-06-06
Some of the best selling books online are adult colouring books. They are not like your typical children’s colouring books – which have huge illustrations and are not especially challenging to anybody who has hand-eye coordination and is over the age of 12. Read More →
Beautiful hand drawn birds from the nineteenth century
2021-03-27
These beautiful hand-drawn birds were taken from two books by Mary and Elizabeth Kirby; Beautiful Birds in Far-off Lands and Birds of Gay Plumage. Read More →
The Wonderful Colour Green
2020-10-09
If we consider the cosmic spectrum, the average colour is green it is what the human eye would see if the observer could view all the light sources in the universe together. Read More →
Small studio space in a warm color palette
2020-10-06
This small one-room studio is decorated with lots of white combined with natural materials and warm colours like beige and ochre. This warm palette looks very inviting and unifies the style throughout the space.
My favourite area must be the small white dining area with white bentwood chairs. Perfect for a morning coffee.Read More →
“Erotic Mehndi”: The Incredible Henna Art By Mary Ginkas
2020-10-05
Erotic henna is a new form of art that celebrates the feminine body, highlighting the natural beauty of women, usually done around the chest, belly, legs and back, it became popular when the work of the Russian henna artist Mary GinkasRead More →