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Girl in Bath eating Food

I had often seen the above image floating around on the internet on various Tumblrs and always mistaken it for a photograph. But I’ve finally discovered the artist behind these oil paintings; American...

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Little French Shops

The boulangerie, boucherie, the epicerie, the caviste, the chocolatier, la coiffure; everyday things just look and sound better in French! Even the British can admit it, like artist Johnny Bull who...

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Dreamy Paintings of a Bohemian Surfer

If I’m ever asked who my favourite artist is, I think I’ve always had the bad habit of saying the name of someone else’s favourite artist, or a buzzing artist I was supposed to like or know about. But...

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Love at First Instagram: Tiny Envelope Paintings

This is a quick one– just a “love at first instagram” kind of thing. These are the opaque watercolour or gouache paintings of Lucy Halcomb, an illustrator, graphic web designer and Brooklyn-based “pen...

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Girl in Bath Eating Food

I had often seen the above image floating around on the internet on various Tumblrs and always mistaken it for a photograph. But the artist behind these oil paintings is American realist painter,

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Little French Shops

The boulangerie, boucherie, the epicerie, the caviste, the chocolatier, la coiffure; everyday things just look and sound better in French! Even the British can admit it, like artist Johnny Bull who...

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Dreamy Paintings of a Bohemian Surfer

If I’m ever asked who my favourite artist is, I think I’ve always had the bad habit of saying the name of someone else’s favourite artist, or a buzzing artist I was supposed to like or know about. But...

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Love at First Instagram: Tiny Envelope Paintings

This is a quick one– just a “love at first instagram” kind of thing. These are the opaque watercolour or gouache paintings of Lucy Halcomb, an illustrator, graphic web designer and Brooklyn-based “pen...

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René Magritte, Accidental Hipster?

Le monde poétique II, 1937. Creative inspiration lives on a carrousel. Meaning, bygone trends and inventions always rear their heads at another point in history, finding relevancy for a new generation...

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Night of the Living Painting

It was a flourishing trade in human flesh. A quest headed by art suppliers so ruthless in seeking out the perfect pigment, that it makes Dorian Grey’s creep-level look like amateur hour. It was the...

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Centuries Ago, They were Facetuning, Filtering and Catfishing Too

Anne of Cleves’ iconic “catfishing” portrait by Hans Holbein the younger, 1539. In 1539, Anne of Cleves met her hot-tempered fiancé, King Henry VIII, for the very first time – and to say it was...

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Take a Curated Journey to Five Cities with Five Artists

© Fabienne Delacroix We’re all trying to find ways to travel without the freedom to actually travel, whether its through film, literature or music, but today, I thought we’d explore this idea through...

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An American Impressionist in Paris

The blue room at Château Le Breau We think of the Impressionists and we picture landscapes, dreamy outdoor scenes, or Degas and his ballerinas. But there was no shortage of Impressionists dedicated to...

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