I enjoyed walking through this intimate but packed art fair yesterday. Above is an eye-catching print by Marc Quinn. The fair is London’s oldest and offers an easy way to see affordable art and discover artists and galleries (some just under my nose). My big find was London’s Long & Ryle Gallery located right near Tate Britain, a place I go all the time, and yet I never noticed this gallery on John Islip Street. I liked nearly everything in their stand, especially the dreamy, surreal watercolors by Spanish artist Ramiro Fernandez Saus where tigers, monkeys, parrots and sailors inhabit his exotic canvases.
Katherine Morling’s intricate porcelain sculptures of a sewing machine “Stitched Up’ or a butterfly explorer’s kit ‘Rummage & Gather’ are delightful. Below is a sewing kit.
I’m looking forward to the gallery’s next exhibition in June ‘Beyond the Book’, featuring artists who use books as their medium.
April, 2014
