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Artist Spotlight: Charles Pachter
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Tuesday, 30 August , 2016Tuesday, 19 November , 2024

Artist Spotlight: Charles Pachter

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is Canadian artist Charles Pachter. Charles Pachter (b. 1942) works in a variety of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture and drawing. The artist works in a graphic, bold style that echoes Pop Art. The artists uses popular icons as subject matter for his work. Much of the imaginary used...

Artist Spotlight: Erwin Wurm
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Sunday, 21 August , 2016Tuesday, 19 November , 2024

Artist Spotlight: Erwin Wurm

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is Austrian artist Erwin Wurm. Erwin Wurm is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses drawing, video, photography, performance and sculpture in his practice. The artist is known for pushing the conventional boundaries of sculpture by creating work that focuses on the premise that sculpture is purely based on mass and...

What is Impressionism?
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Wednesday, 17 August , 2016Tuesday, 19 November , 2024

What is Impressionism?

That’s a good question. Lets try and answer it! In 1874, an exhibition was mounted by a group of artists whose work had been rejected by the Paris Salon. (The Salon had been considered the only serious place to show pictures at the time.) The exhibition included work by Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas and Paul Cezanne artist who are...

Interviewing Rebecca Hunter!
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Friday, 12 August , 2016Tuesday, 19 November , 2024

Interviewing Rebecca Hunter!

PopUp Painting events are led by local artists who are experts not just in their trade, but in entertainment and organisational development. In addition, they are supported by a team with expertise in management, innovation and training. PopUp Painting’s team includes 14 artist, but today we have interviewed Rebecca Hunter one of the first team...

Artist Spotlight: Malika Favre
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Monday, 8 August , 2016Tuesday, 19 November , 2024

Artist Spotlight: Malika Favre

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is Malika Favre. Malika Favre is a French artist based in London. The artist creates figurative works that employ the use of bold colours, in a stylised graphic manner. Favre’s works often play with positive and negative space, where the works become momentarily optically confusing in a similar fashion...

Cono Sur Wines recreates their new wine label with PopUp Painting!
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Sunday, 7 August , 2016Tuesday, 19 November , 2024

Cono Sur Wines recreates their new wine label with PopUp Painting!

At PopUp Painting we believe in the power of creativity, both as beneficial to our personal well-being and as vital to businesses and organisations to stay innovative and ahead of the game. Which is why our corporate events are such a success! On the 9th of June we were very excited to have had Cono...

Artist Spotlight: Noir
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Monday, 1 August , 2016Tuesday, 19 November , 2024

Artist Spotlight: Noir

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is Thierry Noir. Thierry Noir (b.1958), or ‘Noir’ as the artist is often known, is a French street artist based in Berlin. The artist has a distinctive style, using bold, stylised lines filled with bright colours to depict cartoon-like profiles. This strong emphasis on line aims to simplify forms to...

Artist Spotlight: Hurvin Anderson
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Sunday, 24 July , 2016Tuesday, 19 November , 2024

Artist Spotlight: Hurvin Anderson

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is British artist Hurvin Anderson. Hurvin Anderson (b. 1965) is a Birmingham-born painter, whose work straddles figuration and abstraction. The artist studied at the Royal College of Art. Much of Anderson’s work evokes sensations of being caught between one place and another, drawn from the artist’s personal experience of...

Artist Spotlight: Jenny Leonard
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Monday, 18 July , 2016Tuesday, 19 November , 2024

Artist Spotlight: Jenny Leonard

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is PopUp Painting team member Jenny Leonard. Jenny Leonard is a London based artist who studied BA Fine Art Norwich University College of the Arts. The artist works across a variety of media, but specialises in painting, murals and public art projects. Leonard is particularly involved in community and...

Selfies and PopUp Painting!
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Saturday, 16 July , 2016Tuesday, 19 November , 2024

Selfies and PopUp Painting!

selfie  ˈsɛlfi/  noun  informal  plural noun: selfies  A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media.  Selfies have taken over the world! I have been guilty of them, your friend has been guilty of them and probably so has your grandparents!  A selfie is typically...