Cathy's Art Diary

Small exhibition at the NuEdge Gallery in Holetown, Barbados of paintings and prints by Dennis de Caires. These were lovely still lives of fruit. Each painting then had a related set of prints based on it in various colour ways. The effect of the wall of prints was powerful. I particularly liked the set called ‘Old School Mangos”, a bowl of mangos set against wood background. Dennis is currently Associate Professor of Fine Art at Richmond University.

Comprehensive exhibition at Tate Britain looking at the Pre-Raphaelites and those they influenced. I liked the fact that it concentrated on the works in their own right and the achievements of the movement rather than the personal stories however at times that was slightly to the detriment of the flow of the show. Certain bits of the story were told in snippets rather than giving a narrative. I was super to see works by Lizzie Sidall included plus sculptures by Alexander Munro to add a different dimension. The exhibition however did suffer from its own success and was very busy. It was great to see the first Pre-Raphaelite work by each painter together however it was so busy that there was no point in the room where you could view all of them at the same time without a lot of people between you and them. This is probably my own fault for leaving it so late to go but it was still a shame to spend more time dodging round people than looking at the art works. Review