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Installation Art

The Hop by Jyll Bradley- Hayward Gallery, London

Bringing you the latest installation work by English artist Jyll Bradley. "The Hop" pavilion echoes the geometry of Kent's unique hop growing structures where vines were arranged to expose the crop to the maximum amount of sunlight.

Nature

The hop culture of Kent

Today we learn a little about "going hopping" in preparation for viewing and appreciating Jyll Bradley's installation "The Hop" now on display at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Installation Art

Jyll Bradley enhances our sense of space and place

When art evolves from, enhances & expands the culture of everyday life, it satisfies our desire to appreciate beautiful things but also feeds our desire to engage in the world around us - be it natural or human made. An artist who has the gift to create this synergy is Jyll Bradley.

Installation Art

Bob Marchant's bas-relief sound barrier

In 2021 I showcased the bas-relief sound barrier created by Australia artist Bob Marchant. Today thanks to film producer Glen McClelland (GDM Design) enjoy a "birds eye view" of the barrier which runs along the Princess Highway, Sutherland Shire, in the sourthern region of Syndey, NSW.

Sense of Place

Pub scenes from around the world: quirky but lovable

Back to our posts on "pub scenes from around the world" we find ourselves in South Africa. Not visiting Tendai Makufa, one of our favourite artists who lives in South Africa, but having a drink by a baobab tree which was once a quirky but very interesting pub.

Sense of Place

Pub scenes from around the world: Cross Keys Inn, Aldeburgh, Suffolk

In our series of "Pubs around the world" & "Coast to Coast" today we check out Aldeburgh, Suffolk - and find a picturesque village on the beach and a charming Inn in which to enjoy a drink or two.

Celebration

Earth Day

Please take 5 minutes today to reflect on the beauty and vulnerability of our wonderful planet we call Earth. Showcasing the work of acrylic artist Amy Casey. Photo by Lukasz Szmigiel / Unsplash

Sense of Place

Pub scenes from around the world: the Red Sea Star in Israel

On our pub crawl around the world today it is Israel's turn and here we go deep under water where you can watch sealife from 6 metres underwater while enjoying a nice drop of your favourite drink.

Genre Art

Pub scenes from around the world: The English View

Today we visit "the English pub" which might shock you to know was established by the Romans. Before that the English were drinking warm water with milk - because tea didn't arrive into Britain until the 1650s! Somehow I think my ancestors had something a little stronger.

Genre Art

Pub scenes from around the world: the Flemish View

I've decided to go on a bit of a pub crawl back through history and look at some different creative interpretations of "taverns" from different time periods and different countries. Today - "the Flemish view".

Sense of Place

Storyline to Country: Focus on Community

From Africa to India to Australia we explore a little about a "sense of place and community" particularly as it centres around the Aussie pub.

Buildings and Structures

Fenceless America

We continue talking about fences or at least in today's posts - no fences. Greg in Diggers Rest takes us to America and argues that we would save a great deal of money and effort if we followed America's example and had - no fences where possible.

Buildings and Structures

Fences, Posts and Gates - Storyline to Country: Focus on Gates

Have you ever given much thought to gates? Today's post is intended to get you thinking about how important they are.

Sense of Place

Waiting for Absent Friends and Family

In line with the frequent references on the "AnArt4Life" blog to "a sense of community", a recent painting by English Philip Johnson brought the absence of 'community' into sharp and poignant focus.

Sense of Place

Fences, Posts and Gates - Storyline to Country: Focus on Posts

As part of a series on "Fences, Posts and Gates" Anne and Rowdy take you on a journey today along fences stopping to admire the posts - in their various shapes and sizes.

Urban Landscape

Urban Scenes Around the World

The remarkable scenes of urban and city scapes we bring you today from "Unsplash" are a timely reminder how beautiful the world is and how incredibly talented humans are. Take a moment to look around you at your immediate environment and notice the beauty no matter how small or large.

Urban Landscape

Kevin McKay - Towers and Spires: Vaucluse Paintings - Part Two

Urban landscape artist Kevin McKay is very gifted and able "to juxtapose the domestic and contemporary with the historical and herioc". We are very privileged to have a front seat at his current exhibition showcasing buidlings along Sydney's South Head Peninsula.

Urban Landscape

Kevin McKay - Towers and Spires: Vaucluse Paintings - Part One

This post takes you on a visual and historic journey with urban landscape artist Kevin McKay as we showcase the paintings which make up his exhibition of "Sydney's South Head Peninsula" occurring at May▲Space Online until the end of November.

Peru

Chaposos Huamanguinos: Excursion Homeland Peru

Rebeca Dorich is a Peruvian artist with a great passion to preserve Peruvian identity and culture through a participatory project called "Chaposos Huamanguinos". Meet the Chaposos who are setting out to promote what it means to be Peruvian.

Realism

George Wesley Bellows

George Bellows is a second generation Ashcan School painter who created the most amazing evocative paintings of urban landscapes and seascapes.

America

The Ashcan School, New York

Today we learn a little about the "Ashcan School," a group of painters who pioneered Urban Realism in New York in the early 1900s. Image: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Photography

Mount Melbourne Majestic

Mount Melbourne, an extinct volcano in Antarctica is our next stop in visiting places called Melbourne. It's a wonderland of ice which abounds with shapes and shades to delight an artist's eye. Image credit: en.wikipedia.org

Dynasty

William Dexter from Melbourne Derbyshire stands with the Bendigo Diggers

What binds Melbourne Victoria Australia with Melbourne England? Read this post to discover some known links plus the remarkable story of English artist William Dexter. Image: Red Ribbon Banner designed by William Dexter (eurekapedia.org)

Sense of Place

"Picnic Train in the Desert" by John Wylie - Landscape Ambiguous

Through the John Wylie painting "Picnic Train in the Desert" focusing on Broken Hill you will learn the tragic story of the "Picnic Train". John Wylie and I join to highlight the importance of embracing difference and learning tolerance. Image: Railway Town by John Wylie

Sense of Place

Igloos in coastal Eastern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

Showcasing some strange "igloo type buildings" in outback South Australia which were built during WWII as air raid shelters and a Radar Station 203. Photo credit: Rob Nankivell