Jennifer Packer approaches painting through intimacy, attending to bodies, relationships, and lived environments. Her portraits, interiors, and still lifes emerge from an interplay of observation, memory, and improvisation, transforming ordinary encounters into images of remarkable emotional depth.
Caroline Jackson explores the possibilities of abstract painting through compositions in which colour, texture, and gesture shape the perception of space. Her layered surfaces evoke geological formations, atmospheric conditions, and fragments of landscape without settling into recognisable representations. Moving between material density and perceptual openness, her paintings invite viewers to experience space as something both physical and imagined
What microbes live on The Night Watch? ARTIS-Micropia and the Rijksmuseum unveiled the new installation The Night Watch Lives during a festive opening. For the first time, visitors can take a close look at the microbes cultivated from Rembrandt’s world-famous painting. From skin bacteria to soil dwellers: there is more life on The Night Watch than meets the eye.
When the visionary media mogul Ted Turner was asked about his plans for his Montana ranch, he used to say, “I want my lands to look and feel like those,” gesturing to the paintings on his living room walls – awe-inspiring panoramas of the American West in its untouched state by the preeminent landscape artists Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) and Thomas Moran (1837-1926).