Alexander Sturgis, esteemed director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, was once better known as The Mighty Xa – dishevelled party magician. He had an excellent trick of pulling a string of razor blades out of his cheek. A lot of...
Instantloveland is delighted to present the first of three commissioned pieces by ‘Writer-in-Residence’ Charley Peters: ‘Painting, Writing, Abstraction and the Spaces In-between: In Conversation with Tess Jaray’. Charley Peters...
In the third part of Instantloveland’s new feature, painter Peter Lamb writes about his work in the studio, the studio in his work, and the profound and lasting influence of Italo Calvino’s ‘Mr Palomar’…...
In the second instalment of our new feature, it’s the turn of British artist and critic James Faure Walker to describe the art and artefacts, from the ancient to the contemporary, that have helped shape his painting and...
Kevin Teare travels down a road where very little passes for coincidence...
‘Eye Opener’ is a new feature on Instantloveland. We have been asking artists who work with abstraction to write about an art event- whether it be a single artwork, exhibition, installation, time-based piece or performance...
John Bunker on the shape-shifting, rule-defying audacity of Cubism...
Matt Dennis on a complicated, contrarian, and sometimes radical painter...
Frederic Anderson on a painter seeking the highest possible emotion with the simplest possible means...
