Susan Ryder has long been one of the country's leading portrait painters. A member of the New English Arts Club and past vicepresident of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, she has painted many notable sitters including HM The Queen, Diana, Princess of Wales and many more. Inspired by the work of Edouard Vuillard and the teaching of Bernard ......
The life of Scottish watercolourist William Alister Macdonald (1861-1956) contained more mystery and intrigue than a novel by the authors he knew as friends. Mid-life in the early 1900s he painted widely across Britain, Europe and North Africa. Aged sixty, abandoning his wife and son in London, he settled in Tahiti, where he befriended authors ......
Emma Haworth is a painter of the urban scene. Her art is built upon meticulous observation of the ebb and flow of modern metropolitan life - in the streets, the parks, the squares of London, New York, Paris and other great cities: it is a constantly shifting drama of moving people and changing light, played out in a great arena that is both ......
How Arts and Culture Impact Development in Urban Areas
Engagement in the City: How Arts and Culture Impact Development in Urban Areas provides readers with numerous examples of ways that the arts can contribute to community development. Through the diverse backgrounds of its contributing authors - representing artists, art educators, and public administration scholars - the role of arts is explored as ......
This book is a study of the art of the Kwoma of the Sepik River region of New Guinea and how people in this society understand their art as a cultural phenomenon, including its origins in the spirit world.
In early 1910s, two pioneering women entrepreneurs, Nadezhda Dobychina in St Petersburg and Klavdia Mikhailova in Moscow
set up two of the first art galleries in Russia. Skilfully balancing current art market trends and daring avant-garde
experimentations, Dobychina and Mikhailova soon transformed their establishments into vibrant centres of ......
How Arts and Culture Impact Development in Urban Areas
Engagement in the City: How Arts and Culture Impact Development in Urban Areas explores how the arts contribute to cultural and economic development, physical and mental health, education, and social capital. The book can be helpful for scholars and community leaders interested in facilitating arts-based initiatives to improve their communities.
Creative Lettering Today brings together between its covers a quartet of lettering arts: drawing, calligraphy, carving, and digital lettering.Michael Harvey, an English lettering designer and teacher who has taught often in the Untied States, was already a calligrapher,
