by Jacqui Mclennan | Jun 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
I haven’t been to as many exhibitions as usual in May because of so much art seen last month in Germany, so I’ll include some more Cologne & Dusseldorf art in this diary. Back in London we went to the Victoria Miro Gallery to see a show called ‘Surface Work’...
by Jacqui Mclennan | May 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Lots to write about this month, with our trip to Cologne to see some of my favourite artists’ work. But first, before Cologne, we visited exhibitions in London. The Wellcome Collection to see ‘Ayurvedic Man: Encounters With Indian medicine’. A fascinating exhibition...
by Jacqui Mclennan | Apr 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
The first exhibition visited was at the Simon Lee Gallery, to see Michelangelo Pistoletto’s silkscreens on super polished stainless steel. I have grown to like his work, initially finding my image in his mirrors unsettling, but this is Pistoletto’s idea, drawing the...
by Jacqui Mclennan | Mar 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
What a good month for art exhibitions, making me realise how fortunate I am to live in London and to be able to visit shows so easily. The first show we visited this month was the National Gallery and Edgar Degas’s drawings and pastels on loan from the Glasgow Burrell...
by Jacqui Mclennan | Feb 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
January 2018. New Year’s Day and, wanting to get out after all the festivities of Christmas, we walked to Tate Britain to see ‘Impressionists in London French Artists in Exile 1870-1900’. A fascinating exhibition. Besides learning a lot about the Franco-Prussian war,...
