What does an art advisor actually do? London & Hong Kong art advisor Tanya Baxter on building collections with integrity, finding long-term value and why great art should move you for life. 🎨
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A detail from a work in progress. It’s my largest collage piece to date and is inspired by a place I’ve wanted to paint for many years.
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A girl lies wakeful at the edge of a narrow bed pushed toward the picture plane, her head tipped sideways on a white pillow, one arm tucked beneath her chin, the other peeking out from a rumpled blue blanket that spills over striped red and white bedding. She meets our gaze with wide, serious eyes, more alert than sleepy. Around her, a green chequerboard floor reads simultaneously as linoleum and lawn as tufts of grass erupt through the squares, encircling the base of a tall floor lamp and softening the legs of a low table where a worn teddy bear sits propped. To her left, a sleek dark greyhound stands sentinel as it leans toward us. A small rabbit pauses mid-hop nearby. On the warm pink-brown walls rise a flat hanging teddy shape, a row of blue paper-chain children whose shadows deepen into darker doubles, and a high window ledge with a plant and faint ghostly image. Branches press in from the right, so that room and outside world mingle at the edges. “Child Fantasy” visualizes the threshold between safety and unease that often shapes children’s inner lives. Familiar props of a nursery like a bed, toys, and paper figures are all present, yet British artist Duncan McLaren skews scale, perspective, and surface so they feel uncanny. The bed is shallow. The floor is both solid and porous. The paper children are edging toward the gap in the wall as if escaping. The greyhound’s calm, but penetrating stare and the rabbit’s vulnerability suggest guardianship, wildness, and fragility coexisting within the child’s imagination. Grass invading the interior and foliage creeping in through the corner hint at stories pushing beyond adult control, where dreams, fears, companionship and independence grow more powerful than the ordered room itself. In the collection at Scolton Manor, the painting quietly honors children’s rich psychological landscapes, insisting that their fantasies are not trivial diversions, but complex spaces of observation, resistance, comfort, and self-making.
“Child Fantasy” by Duncan McLaren (British) - Oil on canvas / c.1978 - Scolton Manor Museum (Haverfordwest, Wales) #WomenInArt #DogArt #GirlArt #DuncanMcLaren #ScoltonManorMuseum #PembrokeshireArt #ModernBritishArt #art #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #ContemporaryArt #McLaren #OilPainting #1970sArt
Painted in 1934, this scene of Kensington Gardens captures interwar urban leisure as distinctly feminine, sociable, and modern. Two women settle on the close-cropped grass beside London’s Round Pond, their pale dresses and hats catching the milky summer light. The nearer figure, in a softly patterned gown with a red sash and bow, turns toward us with a composed, knowing half-smile. Behind her, a friend lounges in a bright blue dress and brimmed hat playing with a small white and black terrier who stands upright to beg for food at the edge of a white picnic cloth. A pink teapot, cups, and sliced fruit sit carefully arranged in the foreground. Beyond, the still pond, toy sailing boats, strolling figures, and dense green trees complete a shimmering, open-air London park scene. The women’s relaxed postures, fashionable dress, and companionable dog suggest autonomy and pleasure in public space, while the tea service and play of boats tie domestic ritual to cosmopolitan outdoors. Johnson’s light, broken brushwork and high-keyed palette emphasize movement and reflected light rather than strict detail, aligning her with contemporaries who translated Impressionist-inflected color into British park and garden subjects. The painting invites us into a gentle spectacle of everyday joy at a moment when such calm was historically fragile. Esther Borough Johnson, a British painter trained at Birmingham School of Art, Chelsea Art School, and Hubert von Herkomer’s school at Bushey, built her career with portraits, genre scenes, and floral studies that foregrounded women, children, and cultivated landscapes. A regular exhibitor at major London societies, she negotiated a male-dominated art world while working in close dialogue with her husband, Ernest Borough Johnson, yet maintained a distinct sensibility rooted in observational intimacy and luminous color. Her style was attentive to place, affectionate towards sitters, and quietly highlighted women’s everyday lives and leisure.
“The Round Pond” by Esther Borough Johnson (British) - Oil on canvas / 1934 - Wolverhampton Art Gallery (England) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #EstherBoroughJohnson #WomenArtists #ModernBritishArt #art #ArtText #BritishArt #DogArt #1930sArt #WolverhamptonArtGallery #blueskyArt #WomensArt #BritishArtist
Invitations to 'An Eclectic Eye's have arrived, I'll be sending them out at the beginning of November.
I can't wait to show you everything we have for this exhibition, very exciting. 👏
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Seeing and Remembering (working title), 100x120cm canvas, just completed. #artcollecting #painting #contemporarypainting #summerexhibitions #artinlondon #artinglasgow #artinedinburgh #modernbritishart #artforinteriors #scottishpainter #scottish
This self portrait is considered one of Jagger's greatest works. David Jagger (1891–1958) was an acclaimed and prolific English portrait painter. He was renowned for his commissioned portraits of London's high society and British aristocracy. Notable portraits include those of Robert Baden-Powell (1929), Queen Mary (1930 and 1932), King George VI (1937), Winston Churchill (1939), Vivien Leigh (1941) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1958). – Wikipedia
Today's Art Moment
#DavidJagger (British/English, 1891 - 1958) • Self-Portrait • 1928 (see ALT text)
Intense or unsettling?
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A MAJESTIC HEAD: Henry Moore’s Study for Head of Queen no.2 of 1952/72 is to be offered by Lyon & Turnbull on 2 May 2025. It will be on view at the Mall Galleries in London 29 April - 2 May 2025 and all are welcome. Info: bit.ly/42gS9Vk #henrymoore #modernbritishart #modernbritishsculpture
New work by @markwadeart.bsky.social framed & hanging on a wall of modern British art with some Horace Panters @horacepanterart.bsky.social & more Soho with the Coach and Horses (right) produced for a London Transport campaign in the early 1990s (when I was a regular). #art #soho #modernbritishart
AN OLD FRIEND: It was great to see an old friend from Lyon & Turnbull, the Scottish Colourist F C B Cadell’s ‘The Giudecca and Redentore, Venice’ included in the terrific new Fleming collection exhibition at Dovecot Studios which opened yesterday. Don’t miss it! #scottishcolourists #modernbritishart
Terry Frost enjoyed experimenting with colour & form, here in this gouache from 1970, he develops ideas of ‘suspended forms’.
See this & other available works on our website:
https://www.zimmerstewart.co.uk/Artists/Frost-Terry #stives #abstract #modernbritishart #cornwallartists
