Janette Kerr is a romantic traditional landscape painter, who’s style is contemporary and experimental. 

Kerr gets her inspiration from the extreme outdoors - foul weather - wet, dark and moody conditions. 

A lot of her work has emerged from The Scottish Highlands and Southern Ireland, where she has walked absorbing and painting the hills and coastal areas. She says “walking is integral to the process of making and collecting images for paintings. The walker is not merely a spectator but an active participant in the environment, engaging the body and the mind with the world.“ She even paints in the dark - feeling the landscape through sound and touch.

Liu Bolin is a chinese artist who turned his performance art into photographs, depicting himself (just about) hiding in front of buildings and scenes. His ‘Hiding in the City’ series started as a comment on the lack of protection chinese artists were afforded by their own government after it destroyed the artist village Suo Jia Cun in November 2005 (info courtesy of wikipedia).

See more here.

A great post from the always interesting art and design blog Colossal, repeated here with thanks:

Spanish visual artist Ana Soler is known for working with a multitude of objects from dangling hundreds of pairs of scissors or spoons, to creating dense clouds of string, coins, and paper cranes. In her most recent work, Causa-Efecto (Cause & Effect), she hung 2,000 tennis balls in spaces throughout the Mustang Art Gallery in Alicante, Spain. The balls are carefully aligned in suspended trajectories that appear to bounce off walls, floors, and other surfaces providing an uncanny sense of motion similar to a photograph taken with a strobe light

A great example of a simple idea executed with stunning effect. We like.

We came across this website from Carnovsky, beautiful and colourful, their RGB works seek to”explore a surface’s deepness”. The artworks consist of 3 different overlaying images, one in each primary colour, resulting in an unexpected and fascinating image. The individual images can then be viewed through a coloured lens. Read more about it and see some more of this fascinating exhibition here.

A selection of artists from across the UK have designed a series of posters to help promote the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. The apparent simplicity of many of the designs belies the fact that these are the creations of some of Britain’s most successful and well known living artists including Tracey Emin, Chris Ofili, Howard Hodgkin, Bridget Riley, Martin Creed, Anthea Hamilton, Gary Hume and Rachel Whiteread.

Cutting Edges by Gestalten“documents the new heyday of collage in current art and visual culture […] They are not only composing a wide variety of visual elements, but are also deliberately omitting, deleting, and destroying them. This book is an inspiring collection of these unique examples of contemporary collage”

We like it because it has nice pictures made with scissors and glue and magazines and stuff.