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Contemporary Artist, Kara Walker: Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary Yet We Pressed On)

Kara Walker’s work titled Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary Yet We Pressed On) is dated in the year, 2000. It focuses on symbols and images of the historical era preceding the American Civil War. The subject is of slavery and southern plantation owners, defined also as the antebellum South. Her iconographies represent a collective of memories where both white and black racial groups are implicated as the source of racial discomfort. Walker has taken the proper traditional 18^th and More

Preview Royal Academy of Arts, ‘Summer Exhibition’

The Royal Academy’s ‘Summer Exhibition’ poses itself as a bastion of egalitarianism, even after 242 years since it was founded. You either get in by being a member of the club or pay. The select few who submit their registration forms and get selected are warmly accepted and ushered into the blur of the Weston Rooms where they act as the thread vein of the exhibition, while the academics choose to brood their minds with grander galleries. Get set to More

Tate Modern

So the Tate Modern is ten years old and to celebrate it is getting out its gold card and buying up some new artworks from further afield than it has done before and consequently building on its already phenomenal popularity.

My trusty old, crumpled London A-Z marks the site as, “To be completed”and I remember clearly the first time I visited the Tate. I was bowled over, not by the artworks it contained, but by the building itself. The sheer More

Drawing the Human Figure

One of the most important things to learn as an artist is how to draw the human figure. It is also one of the most rewarding things to learn. A finished painting with accurate, realistic figures in it is very satisfying to have completed. The best way to improve your skill in drawing the human figure is to do two things.

First off, try and attend a life drawing class. There is no better way to improve as an artist More

Review: Paul Nash Exhibition

The Dulwich Picture Gallery (7 Gallery Rd. London, SE21 7AD) is holding an exhibition of the works of surrealist artist Paul Nash until May 9. The theme for the surrealist painter is “The Elements”, Nash’s work will be displayed to highlight the use of fire, water, wind, and earth to create a unique display.

The first room of this exhibition offers some of Paul Nash’s best works, which may have been a bad decision, since it takes away from the More

A bit of a rant.

So a lot of people have asked me why I decided to start this site, and the only reason I have been able to come up with is something that is slightly juvenile. I feel like no one understands me. Basically I was offered a job to illustrate a book that is nowhere near my style, the publishers said, and I quote, “we really like your work, now change your style completely.” I just don’t think that is fair really. And whenever I complained about it to anyone who wasn’t in the industry, they just responded with, “Well they are paying you to do what you love, aren’t they?” So I wanted to complain to people who did understand me. And thus the birth of this site. How the illustration story ended? Turned out they did pay me enough for me to sell out completely. C’est la vie!