This is the first Art Diary of 2025. Viewing art, as with its making, involves paying attention. As Simone Weil once pointed out, paying attention equates to prayer.
As we approach Christmas, artist monographs are increasingly appearing on the market, so I begin the October Art Diary with several, which are also linked to launch exhibitions.
A graduate of the legendary East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, this local girl found her form in middle age with a series of vivid landscapes
A new exhibition has filled Firstsite with bold and beautiful paintings 鈥 an immediacy of colour and energy 鈥 commanding the space with their vibrancy and confidence.
鈥淚t aspires to be thought-provoking, funny, serious, attractive and fun,鈥 says Lucas of her new all-women exhibition in Colchester, which includes work by Gillian Wearing, Maggi Hambling and Sue Webster.
The name Denis Wirth-Miller is invariably coupled with that of his lifelong partner, Richard Chopping, and their close friend of many years, Francis Bacon.
Before his death in Colchester aged 94, Wirth-Miller鈥檚 work had been shown in London's leading galleries and acquired by the Queen, the Arts Council England and Contemporary Art Society.