A famous British Admiral, a former Prime Minister, Chaucer and his Canterbury pilgrims, and the last bard alive – all subjects for these remarkable paintings.
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First shown in the Salon at the age of only 18, Vincent van Gogh spotted his talent. Not only was it cut short, but his paintings are vanishing.
His early career, drawing extraordinary ‘noirs’ in charcoal, making lithographs, and starting to paint in oils.
Fifty paintings of scenes from the Bible: they could easily have been so bland. Not for Blake, though, whose genius shines through.
There’s a lot more to this painting than first meets the eye: a bit of Brueghel, some Leighton, and even some Signorelli.
A dozen major works, created as monoprints and then hand-painted to finish, show some of Blake’s most powerful and unique images.
He demonstrated that you can paint from your mind’s eye, however unusual your mind may be. A major influence of William Blake.
Take a couple of similes from Macbeth, and depict them word for word in a painting to express a tough abstract concept. And doesn’t it work well.
She started out as a successful illustrator, but for most of her working life painted rural cottages across southern England.
A life spent largely in poverty, working intensely, and creating some of the most innovative and visionary paintings of any artist before or since.
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