Joan Miró

From a wonderful article in today’s Observer on the work of that magnificent Catalan.

Looking forward to the Tate Modern retrospective which opens next month. Here’s a Guardian slideshow to whet your appetite for painted constellations.

Here’s a photo collage I made after visiting my friend’s amazing Soho art studio last week.

The enormously talented Annabel Emson is working in the recently opened Space studios. Annabel told me she’s currently making paintings made up of fragmented points of view on small individual canvases. I thought it only appropriate to make a fragmented photo collage of memories in her work space.

The studio has a wall of enormous windows which let in an almost blinding light while looking out onto a vast construction site on Oxford Street. I love the idea of Annabel and the builders working side by side constructing entirely different creations. The real solidity and earthiness of a building site next to the vibrant ephemeral abstract beauty of Annabel’s painting.

What a contrast.

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I just love this powerfully coloured portrait by artist Francoise Neilly - what do I know about her? Not a lot, except she’s French and is one funky mother of a painter!

Via The Cool Hunter