Olivia Guterson, or Midnight Olive, in her studio (photo by Sal Rodriguez, courtesy the artist) Not all stories are written with words. Some are encoded in patterns — swirling, squiggly, and ...

Judy Ledgerwood, "First Color" (2022), oil on canvas, 15 inches x 15 inches (all images courtesy Denny Gallery) A lot of writers, myself included, have connected Judy Ledgerwood’s exuberant ...

For you and me, an apple is just an apple, and a tomato… you get the logic. But for Japanese artist Tomoko Sato, they’re blank canvases ready to be filled with delicate art. You see, Tomoko visited ...

It was the late 1960s and early ’70s, a moment in which the art establishment was in a full-on bromance with Minimalism: stacked boxes, chilly neon, hand-drawn grids, not to mention all that trippy ...

In the final session of the unit the children consider the shapes created by two real-life artists in their work. These are Andy Goldsworthy (b 1956), a sculptor who specialises in working with ...

Much like her abstract paintings, Lindsay Cowles’ Richmond home is layered with textured strokes of color. The townhouse in the historic Fan District provided a backdrop for the artist turned textile ...

Pattern is a key part of organising and decorating design. In expressive art, pattern can be used to add variety to a composition, to reflect patterns used in the real world, or to help create a sense ...

Recently, I’ve seen that many people in the Western world have begun to question our general collective aversion to color. Real estate agents recommend keeping walls in neutral colors and investing in ...