Betrayal, Passion and Death – the Easter Story
A challenging and emotive look at the Easter story through the work of artist Colin Moss I don’t believe that Colin explored biblical themes in his work because he was particularly religious. They rather provided useful analogies for social or political commentary or...
Ed Sheeran: Made in Suffolk Legacy Auction
The Ed Sheeran: Made in Suffolk Legacy Auction has grown out of the popular exhibition about Ed Sheeran which was shown in Ipswich 2019-2020. Ed’s parents, John and Imogen Sheeran, were keen for the exhibition project to leave a lasting legacy for Suffolk and we are...
Observational Drawing
Colin Moss “Half and Half” (1951) Pastel Throughout his entire career, Colin Moss’s mastery of observational drawing was the bedrock for much of his artistic output. Schooled in the 1930s, at a time when observational drawing was the cornerstone of art education, his...
Colin Moss – a life of Life Drawing
Colin Moss "Sleeping Nude" Charcoal Reading Time: 6 minutes Life drawing “the activity or skill of drawing people from life, especially a model in an art class”, as stated simply in the Macmillan Dictionary. And yet its realisation is anything but simple. Colin...
Colin Moss : Portraits of the Artist
Reading Time : 6 minutes “Colin Moss has always been something of a cultural icon in his native East Anglia. Not only was he one of the nation's great contemporary artists - his death warranted fulsome obituaries in the national broadsheets - but he was also a...
Cubism, Camouflage & Colin Moss
Colin Moss ‘Cubist figures’ (1950) Oil on Board Reading Time: 6 minutes Cubism, with its all complexity and restrictions, and with its links to Colin Moss's wartime work as a camoufleur, provided a rich artistic vein that the artist could mine in the post-war years....
Why there is still life in Still Life
Reading time: 5 mins In English, we call it Still Life. The Dutch know it as “stilleven”, a phrase that originates from the 1650s. And the French name is “nature morte”. Not necessarily a theme that sets the art world alight but an art genre that has stood the test of...
Hiding in Plain Sight – Camoufleurs of the 21st Century
Hiding in Plain Sight - Camoufleurs of the 21st Century Photo Credit: https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/jge5jg/dazzle-club-surveillance-activists-makeup-marches-london-interview The Big Tower, Camouflaged, Colin Moss 1943 Of the top ten most surveilled...
Colin Moss – From Camoufleur To Soldier
Painter, draughtsman, camoufleur, printmaker, teacher and soldier Colin Moss served as a camoufleur from 1939 – 1943, working on the concealment of civilian installations. During his service he designed a number of camouflage schemes for installations such as...
Palaces in the Night: The urban landscape in Whistler’s prints
The work of one of the most controversial artists of the mid-19th century, James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), is featured this summer at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. The exhibition, which continues until September 8, centres on the cityscapes for...
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