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Brighton festival season showcases emerging artists

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Collecting Art, take a look Throughout May, the city transformed into a vibrant hub of fresh sounds and creative energy, with new artists performing at a wide range of grassroots events and industry showcases. Brighton Festival, Brighton Fringe and The Great Escape all gave emerging UK and international talent a platform in front of both industry professionals and new audiences. Eve Massaad, chief marketing officer at WaterBear, said: When people talk about Brightons festival season, they often focus on the artists at the top of the poster. What excites me is everything happening underneath that. Throughout May we saw emerging artists sharing stages with international acts, building audiences, making connections and gaining experiences that can genuinely shape their futures. Brighton remains one of the best places in the UK to be an emerging artist because there is a community here that genuinely wants to see people succeed. WaterBear Venue and WaterBear Music Bar hosted a string...
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Artist Review: M4 iPad Air (2026)

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Collecting Art, take a look Not a sponsored review Apple has just released the M4 iPad Air on 11 March 2026, almost one year after the M3 iPad Air from 12 March 2025. Prices for the 11-inch and 13-inch models with 128GB storage and 12GB RAM are USD 599 and 799 respectively. Apple Pencil Pro is USD 129. Listed below are the upgrades. Upgrades Feature iPad Air M3, 2025 iPad Air M4, 2026 Processor M3 Chip M4 Chip, 30% faster CPU performance Unified Memory 8GB RAM 12GB RAM Memory Bandwidth ~100 GB/s 120 GB/s Wireless Wi-Fi 6E / Bluetooth 5.3 Wi-Fi 7 / Bluetooth 6.0 Modem Cellular Qualcomm SDX70M C1X Apple-designed Modem By the way, if you find this review useful and you have the intention to buy the tablet, consider using the affiliate links below to make your purchase to support the work I do here. Bottom line The M4 iPad Air is still a well made tablet that does not have the extra features as the iPad Pro, but will still get the job done. The M4 iPad Air is a good tablet that pr...
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What Artists Can Learn From User Experience Design

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Collecting Art, take a look User experience design may appear rooted in software and product teams, yet its principles echo throughout visual art. Both disciplines consider how people move, look, feel, and respond. How will this be encountered. Flow Shapes Attention From Start to Finish In user experience design, flow refers to how a person moves from one stage to another. Designers test and refine journeys carefully, studying examples and processes that are detailed enough to warrant dedicated resources, even down to reviewing PageFlows pricing to understand how curated user flows are organised and studied. That level of scrutiny shows that movement through an experience is never accidental. Artists can recognise a similar responsibility in their own practice. In painting, flow is guided by composition. A cluster of contrasting colours can hold it in place. Lines carved into a plate create movement that feels almost tactile. In a series of prints, variation between editions can gui...
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Featured Artist Elena Lukina

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Collecting Art, take a look Enjoy this collection of calming, ethereal paintings by artist Elena Lukina, who is inspired by nature and the resonance of silence. Visit her website to learn more. The Aesthetics of Silence This series of works is a conscious, deeply personal philosophical response to the spirit of our time. While the modern world constantly amplifies digital and geopolitical chaos, my artistic practice deliberately turns toward “minor keys.” This is an exploration of silence, melancholy, and the restorative rhythms of nature. In this context, minor scales are not about sadness or depression. Instead, they signify intellectual depth, internal purification, and a gentle emotional calibration for the soul. A Sovereign Space This project conceptualizes my Independent Pavilion in Venice, opened simultaneously with the timeline of the Biennale. Creating this dedicated creative territory completely outside of traditional institutional frameworks is an act of absolute artist...
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World-class artists and music joy at Turner Sims this autumn

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Collecting Art, take a look Turner Sims has announced a sparkling new September to December 2026 programme with tickets on sale now from turnersims.co.uk The ambitious series spans classical, jazz, folk, global music, film, literature and family events. Death of Gesualdo Image: Paul Marc Mitchell READ MORE: Broadway and West End smash hit to visit Southampton as part of first UK tour From core classical performances by leading artists including Paul Lewis and Trio Bohemo, to the genre-crossing energy of The Gigspanner Big Band, the exploratory jazz of Jasper Høiby, the rich storytelling of GreenMatthews, and an appearance from poetry giant Lemn Sissay, the programme offers something for everyone. Across the season, audiences can expect intimate encounters with internationally celebrated performers, bold theatrical collaborations, new voices in jazz, spellbinding folk, and music that moves across borders, traditions and generations. Highlights include striking new theatre work The...
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MAKING A MARK: Only 10 paintings sold?

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Collecting Art, take a look © Katherine Tyrrell 2005-26 You can BOOKMARK and/or LINK to any of my sites from your site. Unauthorised use, republishing, copying or any other duplication of ANY material on this blog without written permission is STRICTLY PROHIBITED - and I do take action if you do!
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Lascaux’s Prehistoric Cave Paintings – Rick Steves' Travel Blog

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Collecting Art, take a look As Europe starts opening up to travelers again, it’s more exciting than ever to think about the cultural treasures that await. For me, one of the great joys of travel is having in-person encounters with great art and architecture — which I’ve collected in a book called Europe’s Top 100 Masterpieces. The walls are painted with animals — bears, wolves, bulls, horses, deer, and cats — and even a few animals that are now extinct, like woolly mammoths. There’s scarcely a Homo sapiens in sight, but there are human handprints. All this was done during the Stone Age nearly 20,000 years ago, in what is now southwest France. That’s about four times as old as Stonehenge and Egypt’s pyramids, before the advent of writing, metalworking, and farming. The caves were painted not by hulking, bushy-browed Neanderthals but by fully-formed Homo sapiens known as Cro-Magnons. These are not crude doodles with a charcoal-tipped stick. First, they had to haul all their materials...
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