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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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...

Collecting Art, take a look Justine Florentino is a self-taught digital painter from the Philippines who focuses on portraits, character work, and commissions. Her work is built around people, emotion, and careful observation, with a style that keeps a traditional painting feel even though it is made digitally. Justine says she paints people because she is interested in the stories that show up in a face. Her process starts with sketching, anatomy, and value structure, then moves into color, shapes, and texture. Her paintings have a soft realism that feels calm but not generic. The surfaces are detailed, but the work is not overly polished in a glossy way; it stays painterly and human.

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Collecting Art, take a look Collaborating with Other Artists: The How, Why, and When There is a myth that art is a solitary pursuit – the lone artist, isolated in their studio, emerging only to unveil their finished masterpiece. While solitude certainly has its place, some of the most rewarding and growth-filled experiences in an artistic career come from collaboration. Working with other artists can take many forms: joint exhibitions, studio swaps, creative partnerships on a single piece, or organising events together. When done poorly, it can lead to frustration and conflict. Let me share what I’ve learned from running an exhibiting group and collaborating with fellow artists. Why Collaborate? Shared Audiences: Each artist brings their own followers, collectors, and network. A joint exhibition or project exposes your work to new eyes. Each artist brings their own followers, collectors, and network. A joint exhibition or project exposes your work to new eyes. Shared Costs: Splitt...

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Collecting Art, take a look Each feature introduces a distinctive creative voice, bringing remarkable work to the forefront while exploring the ideas, inspirations, and stories that breathe life into these powerful public artworks. Together we celebrate the colour, energy, and cultural narratives that these artists bring to the urban canvas, transforming everyday spaces into reflections of community, imagination, and identity. Let us discover the visionary artists behind the murals who spark conversations, challenge conventions, and reshape how we experience our cities, one wall at a time. Shamsia Hassani Shamsia Hassani is a pioneering Afghan street artist whose murals express resilience, identity, and the monumental strength of women’s voices. Recognised for her recurring female figures with closed eyes and absent mouths, Hassani creates powerful visual narratives that reflect both personal and collective experience. Musical instruments often appear within her compositions, sugges...

Collecting Art, take a look North Lincolnshire artist Deborah Grice takes the John Moores Painting Prize 2025 Visitors’ Choice Award and its £2,025 public prize Walker Art Gallery and the John Moores Painting Prize Trust have announced Deborah Grice as the winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2025 Visitors’ Choice Award for her painting Safehold. Based in North Lincolnshire, Grice receives £2,025 in the audience-led prize, sponsored by Rathbones, after visitors voted in their thousands at one of the UK’s most closely watched contemporary art exhibitions. In a year when the public gravitated towards paintings that reward attention, Safehold stood out for its quiet insistence. In daylight, the small canvas reads as a restrained landscape: a scene held in balance, recognisable and calm. Then the gallery’s choreography shifts. Under UV light torches provided by gallery assistants throughout the exhibition, a luminous geometric structure emerges from the same surface, turning the imag...

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Collecting Art, take a look I’ve always wanted to take a ceramics class. There’s just something about working with clay that feels especially appealing, like you’re part artist and part mad scientist, hoping the kiln gods are in a good mood that day. It seems like such a unique way to make art, using your hands to turn something soft and formless into an object that can be beautiful, functional, or delightfully weird. These ceramic artists clearly know exactly what they’re doing, making clay sing in ways that feel both impressive and effortless. Their work is the kind that makes you stop scrolling and think, “Okay, I really need to finally sign up for that class.” 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.,

Collecting Art, take a look Ito is a Kyoto‑based Japanese watercolor artist and ghost storyteller who creates haunting, monochromatic illustrations inspired by Junji Ito, Japanese folklore and horror cinema, often with a “samurai heart” and “comic book hero” vibe. His work features temples, Batman with cats, snowy mountains and supernatural scenes on Arches Cold Press paper. More: Instagram,

Collecting Art, take a look There is a moment in many artists’ careers when they realize the art world is far more comfortable protecting objects than protecting the people who make them. It rarely announces itself. There is no singular betrayal. More often, the shift happens quietly, inside a document presented as routine. “Standard agreement.” “Minor revision.” “Just a formality.” The moment arrives when an artist stops skimming and starts reading. Mine came before an exhibition had even opened. I was preparing for a show with a gallery I was working with for the first time when I received the initial consignment agreement. A consignment agreement allows a gallery to take possession of artwork and sell it on the artist’s behalf while retaining a percentage of the sale. Until a work is sold, ownership remains with the artist, but control over its sale is defined by the terms of that agreement. I had recently completed an Art Law-focused program, and it was the first time I felt eq...