#andy reeve

Working Tax Credits and Art

In 2007 I was lucky enough to be accepted onto the Access to HE Art & Design course at City College Norwich. I’m not joking when I say I had to hold back the tears when the course leader, Brenda Unwin mentioned the delicate lines in some drawings in my sketchbook. The Access course was affordable and also paved the way for me to go to university; the first in my family to do so. Two years later,…

The Secret on the Reverse

Recent news in the art world involves the coming to auction of Picasso’s La Gommeuse created during the artist’s blue period. Of course there is huge interest in this work and not simply because it is associated with a well-known period in the artist’s life, but because the reverse of the canvas features a secret painting which has never been publicly seen before. I laughed at this. Not because I…

The Price for Depravity may be a headline more commonly found blasting across one of the more morally indignant newspapers of this country, but it is of particular interest. Do not forgive the usage of the word depravity.

Francis Bacon, so beloved of many…