by Tim Roberts | Nov 13, 2015 | British Artist, Featured, News
Eccentricity has long been a quality appropriated by the English. (Similar behaviour by the Scots, Welsh or Irish is usually dismissed as simply ‘mad’ – at least, by the English). Few however, have so assiduously pursued the epithet as The Kindred...
by Tim Roberts | Oct 19, 2015 | British Artist, Featured, News
One of the more interesting aspects of the excellent (if limited) Barbara Hepworth show at Tate Britain was the inclusion of some rare images from the original Covent Garden production of Michael Tippett’s 1955 opera, The Midsummer Marriage. Although I’ve...
by Tim Roberts | Oct 13, 2015 | British Artist, Featured, News, Ruminations
One of the more fortunate consequences of the Ravilious/Bawden boom, has been the renewed interest in British landscape painting by, let’s say, lesser-known British artists who came up through the craft-based art school tradition. Less fortunately, the reason...
by Tim Roberts | Oct 1, 2015 | Ruminations
The recent publicity surrounding Ridley Scott’s blockbuster, The Martian (in which Jason Bourne gets marooned on Mars and has to survive on potatoes grown on his own poo) got me thinking of what happened to all the poo generated by the crews of the Apollo moon...
by Tim Roberts | Sep 24, 2015 | Featured, News
Cosmonauts; Birth of the Space Age – a new exhibition at the Science museum, addresses the imbalance in public knowledge about the US and Russian space programmes with a collection of soviet space junk including Valentina Tereshkova’s space capsule, Yuri...
