David Jones at Ditchling

  I visited the art gallery at Ditchling in Sussex today for the first time, in order to see the small show of pictures by David Jones of animals. This is running at the same time as the larger show at Chichester. Jones was fascinated with depicting animals [Read More…]

Archibald Motley/Edward Burra

Today’s FT reviews a show at the Whitney in New York of an American artist called Archibald Motley. His work looks extremely interesting. There is a full Wikipedia entry on him and his career.I had never heard of him before and therefore can claim no knowledge of his work. [Read More…]

David Jones at Pallant House

Visited the show in Chichester on Saturday. It is the usual excellent Pallant House show, with exhibits carefully chosen to show the artist’s development. There is a slight problem conveying the multifarious nature of this particulr artist’s output, as he worked in a number of mediums and was [Read More…]

Brian Sewell

Yesterday I attended his Memorial Service in St James’s, Piccadilly. Despite its 17th C origins, this always feels like a brand new church inside, with its rebuilding after the War and its clear glass. It certainly has no feel of the 1680’s, apart from the amazing Grinling Gibbons [Read More…]