Cathy's Art Diary

Fun exhibition at Eames Fine Art of new prints by Mychael Barratt. I love Barratt’s witty, bright prints which up to now have added dogs to famous art works creating a pastiche of the previous artist’s style. He has now branched into cats! I don’t think they are quite as successful as the cats are slightly cartoon like so they seem less of a nod to the original artist plus I’m more of a dog person anyway! Closed 2 March 2025  

Witty exhibition   at Eames Fine Art of prints by Mychael Barratt. I love Barrett’s dog prints, where he produces prints in the style of famous artists inserting extra dogs, and this show had a few of these but it also had other clever works set in London. I spent ages looking at a tube map with clever vignettes for the names of stations from famous people who lived there to puns. I found myself laughing out loud. I loved his lockdown piece, a take on the Ghent Altarpiece featuring the people and buildings of Soho. My favourite was this take on Bruegel’s “Four Seasons” set in London parks. I have to use the Greenwich one to illustrate this. Closed 19 November 2023