Art in Focus: March 2024

28/02/2024 | Reform

Self Portrait as a Shopping TrolleyOil on canvas, 2021Kate Wilson

If you were asked to think of yourself as an everyday object, what would it be?…

Art in focus is curated by Meryl Doney

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Art in Focus: February 2024

29/01/2024 | Reform

Joseph the Carpenter, 1642Georges de La TourLouvre, Paris

The painter Georges de la Tour is known for his use of light, especially candlelight. Here his figures are simply rendered, and the colours chosen so that the one light source creates … Read More

Art in Focus: December 2023

12/12/2023 | Reform

Flight into EgyptWalter Ritchie, 1919–1997Brick relief sculpture

‘Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went to Egypt, and remained there until the death of Herod.’

For how many Christmases have we heard those words, … Read More

Art in Focus – November 2023

30/10/2023 | Reform

The Red Vineyard / Red Vineyard at Arles (Montmajour)Vincent van Gogh1888

This colourful, vibrant work may well be the only painting its creator Vincent van Gogh ever sold. Certainly, it is the only one for which we have a named … Read More

Art in Focus – September 2023

29/08/2023 | Reform

CrucifixionPhilip Eglin2008

Philip Eglin is an exciting ceramic artist. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1986 and being awarded the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts ten years later, he has produced an outstanding series of works. They … Read More

Art in focus – July/August 2023

26/06/2023 | Reform

St Francis of AssisiSt Benedict’s Cave, Subiaco MonasteryFresco, 1223-1224

I think I would like to have met Francis, the young Italian nobleman turned saint. This fresco on the wall of the monastery of Subiaco near Rome is the oldest known … Read More