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I recently visited the amazing cliffside botanic garden in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. It seemed appropriate to write about it this week as we la...

Igshaan Adams is a South African artist who uses sculpture and weaving to create installations. His latest exhibition, Kicking Dust, references a i...

The Brutal Beauty exhibition is a retrospective of one of the art world's outsiders, Jean Dubuffet. He was a playful artist who liked to experiment...

I recently visited the permanent displays at the Tate Modern, including the installation by Yinka Shonibare CBE. This work entitled The British Lib...

For this week’s pattern blog, I want to focus on round shapes and curved lines as I use them a lot in my designs. There is something satisfying ab...

Texture can enhance shape and create contrast, creating greater three-dimensional visual interest. Looking back to the last Chelsea Flower Show (Sp...

I first saw Dale Chihuly’s work at Kew Gardens back in 2005 and it inspired me to go a glassblowing course (with some very modest results!). The c...

Attention all lovers of spot patterns! I was lucky enough to go to the Yayoi Kusama exhibition back in November 2018 and have just found my photos...

Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a textile artist who began her training and career with the German Bauhaus art school in the 1920s and 30s. With her hu...

Ray Morimura is a Japanese woodblock artist who produces the most exquisite work. His signature look involves a complex interplay of contrast, pat...

The South Bank is a place which divides opinion – are its Brutalist buildings just ugly lumps of concrete or is there an elegance about the angula...