art blog since 2009
Three good souls are performing, and improvising, their way through a weekday afternoon; large paintings are taking shape in the barn where they congregate. The trio combine music, movement and the slow application of bright acrylic paint. They address the canvas with gestural emphasis, and respond to one another with alacrity. For most of the …
February 8, 2024
A search for plenitude in the Christmas markets of Bonn, Siegburg and Köln
December 23, 2023
How a family holiday redefined my understanding of modernist literature
October 2, 2023
Having visited a fake cave, I was intrigued to visit a fake stone circle. In its early bronze age heyday, Devil’s Quoits comprised of 36 standing stones in a ring with a 79m diameter. Between the middle ages and the present all but one went missing. Today most of them have been relocated, rounded up …
April 17, 2023