[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The work of revolutionary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become infamous in popular culture as well as becoming a Fashion Icon in her own right, transcending decades. Big brows, great hair, and selfies sound familiar? Well, it’s safe to say she was the first with the fifty-five self-portraits she painted during her lifetime portraying her unique...
Category: Artist Spotlight
Artist Spotlight: Rene Magritte
PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is Belgian painter and Surrealist, Rene Magritte. Rene Magritte (1898–1967) was famed for his surreal works that inserted commonplace objects into unfamiliar and uncanny scenes. Some reoccurring icons within his work included clouds, pipes, bowler hats, and green apples. With his pictorial and linguistic puzzles, Magritte made the familiar...
Artist Spotlight: Jean Beraud
Jean Béraud was a French painter renowned for his numerous paintings depicting the life of Paris, and the nightlife of Paris society.Pictures of the Champs Elysees, cafés, Montmartre and the banks of the Seine are precisely detailed illustrations of everyday Parisian life during the “Belle Époque”. Born in St Petersburg, Béraud moved with his family...
Artist Wyland’s “Color & Keep it Immortal” colouring book challenge
Wyland is a French Artist – Performer – Fashion Designer – Experimental Artist – Jewellery Maker – Colouring Book Creator , living in London. He loves a challenge and this is a BIG one. Wyland’s goal is to publish one colouring book per month, celebrating a different famous person each day that inspires him. That’s 365 new drawings in his unique gesture portraits style!...
Artist Spotlight: Ruth Clayden
Ruth Clayden is an artist, living and working in Leeds. Ruth Clayden is an artist and crafter. Her paintings come in a range of different styles from expressive landscapes to scented abstracts! Clayden’s art has a sense of fun and vibrancy which makes it very unique. To see more examples of Ruth Clayden’s work, please...








