New Art to Purchase
Girl with a Pearl Pixel
P1X3L have excelled themselves with this contemporary rendering of Vermeer’s classic image.
Summer in Soho Square – street photography
Snapped by Johnny Peckham in Soho Square, this image conveys something of the madcappery and busyness of life in central London.
The Footballers’ Cars project
Footballers have great cars. That is the starting place for the art project Footballers’ Cars, which artist Mark May King is working on as a side-project.
‘Footballers drive the most wonderful cars. I hope to record many of them in artworks in my wildly sketched pop art style.’
‘If there is one strata of society which frequently demonstrates a love of
Ptolemy – The sadness of Abstract Art
Yellow, the universal colour of melancholy since Goethe and Zola, imbues this canvas with a sense of deep alarm and overwrought anxiety. How does Ptolemy keep producing such winsome works? The blotches of greyed-green add an almost regal quality to the ensemble, reminiscent of works by such luminaries as Stubbs, Wilkins-Butt and R.E. Walton.
“In this work I tried to show the loneliness inherent in the abstract milieu. I hope it comes over in the image just how much abstract artists fight daily to bring their masterpieces to the public.”
With sublime shapes like lakes in a desert and excitement exuberating from the artwork’s every pore, it surely won’t be long until thousands of children are christened Ptolemy in his honour.
Worthing First Ice Cream of the Summer
Johnny Peckham has given us another masterpiece that delves into the sublime depths of human experience.
Captured within the frame is a woman, adorned in regal splendor, ensconced within the protective embrace of a waterproof mobility scooter—a modern-day chariot of empowerment. With grace and poise, she indulges in the sensory delight of ice cream, its creamy sweetness a testament to the fleeting pleasures of earthly existence.
The composition exudes a profound sense of temporality, as if frozen in a momentary reverie amidst the relentless march of time. The juxtaposition of the woman’s serene countenance with the mechanical apparatus of her conveyance imbues the scene with a poignant sense of existential inquiry—a reflection on the fragile interplay between human agency and the immutable forces of fate
Sperlonga di Ravello, Art Critic and Italian tandem dressage* champion 2023
*Tandem dressage is a new sport that is best described as dressage, but on a tandem.
Nesting (Sticks on a cup)
A wonderful memory-piece from Dafydda, who created this blistering work over a period of seven weeks in a park in Outer Dundee.
“With this piece I was trying to draw attention, through carefully placed sticks, to the complex nature of life itself. Each stick represents both the unknown in the future and, at the same time, the continuing elapsation of time that bears down on us all.”
Art critic Hoffa Welogi says: “When I first saw this work I thought, that’s it, that is the end of art. All that can be achieved has been achieved. There is nothing more to be said. The cup, lonely, empty – or full, we cannot tell – being used not for anything so everyday as drinking, but as architecture, as an example of how humans can build in a sustainable way. But it also shouts of its position in the avant garde, for is this not actually a new form of portraiture? Soon any collector who doesn’t have a Daffyda in their collection will become reclusive, unable to face their peers. Daffyda, you have made a masterpiece.”