jessica k

Bruce Nauman, Human/ Need/ Desire

chihuly

i NEED to see this

Dale Chihuly at Halcyon Gallery, New Bond Street.

winter wishlist

lover dress & a pair of monogrammed velvet slippers, a snip at only £295?! eek, but dreamy

On Thursday morning I had the absolute privilege of being invited to a private viewing & tour of the FCB Cadell exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two in Edinburgh, given by the Gallery's curator. I didn't know a huge amount about Cadell before I went to the exhibition, aside from the fact that he was one of the Scottish Colourists and had a bit of a penchant for still life... but I ended up leaving the gallery with a new-found love of Cadell, and a slightly softened attitude towards still life painting (I still resent SG art for ruining much of the joy that still life may have held for me by our constant instruction to produce carbon copies of Cézanne… grrr)

ANYWAY, here are some delightful Cadell paintings for you.

somewhat ironically I haven't actually shown any of Cadell's famed still life paintings. But go to the exhibition and see them for yourselves! It's really good, I promise.

The Scottish Colourist Series: FCB Cadell runs until 18th March.

bleak but beautiful

Nathan Coley, There Will Be No Miracles Here.

Currently at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

this is my own (not-very-good-taken-on-an-iphone-picture) so here is a better one that I found on the almighty google that shows Coley's piece in a better light (literally? it is made of lightbulbs after all...)

weekend curiosities

So it's only saturday night but so far this weekend is shaping up to be pretty good, plus there is a Law and Order SVU on tv right now featuring Robin Williams as some crazy manipulative recluse, (OR IS HE JUST AN INNOCENT MAN??!) so that's a definite bonus. Today I went to the Scottish Norwegian Society's Jul Basar, think waffles (vafler!), copious knitwear and tonnes of caviar in a tube, but it was actually pretty good! Then afterwards I went antiquing with my dad, and after what can only be described as a complete odyssey around some pretty shady parts of glasgow we ended up at this ace antiques warehouse. Here are some snaps;