THE NEW EUROPEAN 'EDVARD MUNCH, BEYOND THE SCREAM'

'Beyond The Scream' published in print on 15 May 2025 (online 27 April, 2025) in The New European. It relates to the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) as a portraitist, and links to a current exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London 'Edvard Munch Portraits' (until 15th June).
Here is a link to the article.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/rosalind-ormiston-edvard-munch-beyond-the-scream/?utm_campaign=e3d78db2-1665-41c4-8a42-9bf5f7965029&utm_source=1234586

On carousel:

Detail -copyright -from 3-page article in the print edition of The New European issue 435, 'Beyond the Scream', Eurofile, pp.35-37. Published 15 May 2025.

Portrait of Felix Auerbach (detail), Edvard Munch, 1906 © Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

THE ARBUTURIAN  IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF RUBENS

In April I visited Antwerp, to see the house and garden of the Flemish painter and diplomat Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). The house is under restoration but the garden is now open to visit. It must be the most beautiful outdoor enclosed space in Antwerp. Rubens loved his family, his garden and Roman antiquity, and all feature in a painting by him, walking with his wife Helena and son Nicholas, in their garden at Rubenhuis, Antwerp c. 1630-1631.

Read about this fabulous place in The Arbuturian (free to read onine)

In the Footsteps of Rubens | The Arbuturian

And Welcome to Rubenshuis | Rubenshuis | Rubenshuis

on carousel: Peter Paul Rubens, Helena Forment and their Son Nicholas Walking in their Garden (The Walk in the Garden), c 1630-31, image copyright Bayerrische Staatsgemaldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek, Munich, and Rubenhuis, Antwerp.

(AND many thanks to VisitFlanders VISITFLANDERS)

THE NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON: After a two-year makover the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery, reopens to the public on 10 May 2025. The rehang of artworks is inspired. Some things - like Robert Venturi's fabulous staircase remains - other parts have received a 'glow-up'. And Giorgio Locatelli has coffee shops and a restaurant to tempt visitors too.

on carousel: interior view of the Sainsbury Wing entrance, (image copyright Rosalind Ormiston)

THE ARBUTURIAN     HIROSHIGE: ARTIST OF THE OPEN ROAD

A stunning exhibition Hiroshige: artist of the open road, at the British Museum, London (until 7 September 2025) focuses on the paintings, books, prints and sketches of Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). 

Read a review here in The Arbuturian. www.arbuturian.com 

Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road | The Arbuturian

on carousel: Cherry Blossoms on a Moonless Night along the Sumida River, 1847-8 © Alan Medaugh. Photography by Ryoko Matsuba 

THE NEW EUROPEAN 'EDVARD MUNCH, BEYOND THE SCREAM'

'Edvard Munch, beyond The Scream' published online 27 April, 2025 in The New European. It relates to the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) as a portraitist, and links to a current exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London 'Edvard Munch Portraits' (until 15th June).
Here is a link to the article.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/rosalind-ormiston-edvard-munch-beyond-the-scream/?utm_campaign=e3d78db2-1665-41c4-8a42-9bf5f7965029&utm_source=1234586

On carousel: : Portrait of Felix Auerbach (detail), Edvard Munch, 1906 © Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

 

JMW TURNER 250th BIRTHDAY

The 250th birthday of one of England's finest painters - Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775-19 December 1851) - was celebrated on 23rd April 2025 at Sandycombe Lodge, the house he designed and built at 40 Sandycoombe Road, St Margaret's, Twickenham TW1 2LR. He said if he had his life again he would have been an architect.

This lovely villa was his country retreat. It is open to the public and on now is a stunning exhibition Turner's Kingdom: Beauty, Birds and Beasts (until 26 October 2025.) 

https://turnershouse.org/

on carousel: A birthday cake for JMW Turner, celebrated at Turner's House, Twickenham on 23 April 2025. Image copyright Rosalind Ormiston

THE ARBUTURIAN GRAYSON PERRY DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR

Published online in The Arbuturian (8 April 2025) www.arbuturian.com, a review of Grayson Perry - Delusions of Grandeur', a new exhibition of over forty new works by British artist Sir Grayson Perry, celebrating his 65th birthday. At the Wallace Collection, Hartford House, London until 26 October 2025.

It's exhuberent, irreverent, a bit dark at times, memorable, and fun.

Read it here:

Grayson Perry's Delusions of Grandeur | The Arbuturian

Exterior Hertford House, Manchester Square, W1U 3BN- the Wallace Collection, London; detail of Grayson Perry exhibition poster. 

THE NEW EUROPEAN: HOW THE DUTCH HOLD BACK THE SEA

Published online 30 March 2025  - In print 1 May 2025

Can the Seas Survive Us? Is a question asked by Jago Cooper, director of the Sainsbury Centre Art Museum, at University of East Anglia, Norfolk, in three exhibitions relating to climate change and rising sea levels. Across the North sea the Netherlands may have the answer. Find out in 'How the Dutch Hold Back the Sea' in The New European, published online on 30 March (in print Thursday 1 May: The Art of Holding Your Head above Water').

click on link:

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/rosalind-ormiston-how-the-dutch-hold-back-the-sea/?utm_campaign=e3d78db2-1665-41c4-8a42-9bf5f7965029&utm_source=1234579 

At the Sainsbury Centre: Can the Seas Survive Us? - Sainsbury Centre

World of Water - until 3 August 2024.

on carousel:

- Dutch artist trio, Ronald Boer, Jonmar van Vlijmen, Rosanne van Wijk, de Onkruidenier.

de Onkruidenier, Relearning Aquatic Evolution, 2022. Image: Marleen Annema. Copyright: de Onkruidenier

TO BE LAUNCHED on World Oceans Day, June 8th, 2025.

TO THE SEA (A Shutter Hub Editions Publication, 116-pages: ISBN 978-1-7399632-9-3)

On carousel: Cover image copyright Jo Stapleton, 2025.

website: www.shutterhub.org.uk 

“We reminisce on childhood holidays and collecting seashells, dog walks on the beach, and the soothing sound of gently lapping waves. But we must remember, although it’s bigger than all of us, vast and powerful, the sea very much needs us to look after it. As climate change imposes more circumstantial realities on us, the sea becomes ever more important in our everyday lives,” says Karen Harvey MBE, founder of Shutter Hub and curator of TO THE SEA.