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It was Jenny Saville’s new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, ‘The Anatomy of Painting’.

August 22, 2025

In an interview with Sarah Howgate in the catalogue of the 2025 exhibition The Anatomy of Painting, Jenny Saville says that some part of her decisions and choices of method and technique as a painter is about freeing ‘up time to think about the way I’m applying paint – the mark-making, paint consistency and colour. … More It was Jenny Saville’s new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, ‘The Anatomy of Painting’.

Being alone in a crowd: exhilaration, the illusion of connection, and satisfied or unsatisfied  loneliness.

August 16, 2024

Yesterday, I was in Edinburgh, and I loved the things I did [see my blog at this link]. However, if I want to give an instance of that nervous exhilaration you might refer to as stand alone and apparently ‘unmotivated’ excitement, it was pushing through the crowds on High Street; stopping behind the backs of … More Being alone in a crowd: exhilaration, the illusion of connection, and satisfied or unsatisfied  loneliness.