Ken Kewley – Notes on Color

Ken Kewley Certosa Painting 12 x 12 inches Oil on panel 2010   Israel Hershberg said that “Ken Kewley is a painter who reveals a serious and profoundly comprehensive engagement with the art and act of picture making. His work is possessed of a most astonishing quality: a primal joy, a continuing infatuation perhaps, with [...]

Slade School of Art, Part Two – William Coldstream

William Coldstream, Reclining Nude 1974-6   This is the second post in a series of posts where Neil Plotkin, who has been living in London for the summer, looks at a some significant painters coming out of the The Slade School of Art in the UK. This article introduces William Coldstream and points to where [...]

The Slade School of Art – Part One

William Coldstream, Window in Hampstead 1981   Painting Perceptions is again fortunate to have a guest article from Neil Plotkin who has been living in London for the summer. This first post is an brief overview where he looks at a few significant painters coming out of the The Slade School of Art in the [...]

Interview with Judith Green

Judith Green, Mulberry | Oil & Graphite on Linen laid on Panel | 25 x 40cm   Painting Perceptions is again very fortunate to have a guest interview from Neil Plotkin who has been living in London for the summer. In this first of a few articles about perceptual painters in the UK he has [...]