Tags: creativity

Artist of the Week: Charlie Kirkham

PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is artist and PopUp Painting team member Charlie Kirkam. Charlie Kirkham works in a variety of medium including watercolours, oils, pencil, ink, collage, digital imaging and ceramics. The artist trained at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and the Heatherley School of Fine Art (2015). Kirkham often explores [...]
Support Help for Heroes and The British Legion with our Poppy season!

Support Help for Heroes and The British Legion with our Poppy season!

Action always speaks louder than words, and here at PopUp Painting as well as our incredibly fun evening events we also offer a unique and fun way to raise funds for charities and other not-for-profit organisations. For the entire month of November part of the ticket sales will be donated to two charities. we are […]

Interviewing Miguel Galue!

PopUp Painting events are led by local artists who are experts not just in their trade, but in entertainment and organisational development. In addition, they are supported by a team with expertise in management, innovation and training. PopUp Painting’s team includes 14 artist, and today we have interviewed Miguel Galue.   1. Introduce yourself; Who […]

What is Art Deco?

Art Deco is an art movement involving a mix of modern decorative art styles, largely of the 1920s and 1930s, whose main characteristics were inspired by various avant-garde painting styles of the early twentieth century. With the rise in status of decorative artists, who in the 19th century had been considered simply as artisans. The term […]

REALLY GOOD FOURTH PLINTH!

REALLY GOOD FOURTH PLINTH!

If you have been roaming central London lately then it would be pretty hard to miss the The 11th Fourth Plinth artwork that has been unveiled in London’s Trafalgar Square by mayor Sadiq Khan.     Brighton based artist David Shrigley’s ‘Really Good’ is a 7m-high elongated thumbs-up, described as the ‘tallest and most positive yet.’ It is […]

Ask a Stupid Question Day!

Ask a Stupid Question Day Originally an unofficial American holiday, the date coincides with the last day of school in September. The day encourages students to ask more questions in classrooms. OK! Lets roll with it. Do you ever think to yourself. Am I a Painter? Can I paint? Do I know how to hold […]

Artist of the Week: Karine Gullino

PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is PopUp Painting team member Karine Gullino. Karine Gullino is a French artist based in London. The artist works across a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, painting and photography. Materiality is an important aspect of the artist’s work, allowing materials to respond to each individual artwork. The artist [...]

Artist of the Week: Malika Favre

PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is Malika Favre. Malika Favre is a French artist based in London. The artist creates figurative works that employ the use of bold colours, in a stylised graphic manner. Favre’s works often play with positive and negative space, where the works become momentarily optically confusing in a similar fashion [...]

Artist of theWeek: Hurvin Anderson

PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is British artist Hurvin Anderson. Hurvin Anderson (b. 1965) is a Birmingham-born painter, whose work straddles figuration and abstraction. The artist studied at the Royal College of Art. Much of Anderson’s work evokes sensations of being caught between one place and another, drawn from the artist’s personal experience of [...]

Partner Venue: Urban Meadow Hyde Park!

PopUp Painting has been partnered with Urban Meadow since May 2014. Read all about this great location, which can be found to the North of Hyde Park between Queensway and Notting Hill Gate! A lovely unpretentious restaurant and bar, knocking out a superb all day menu right opposite Hyde Park, near Bayswater. Their spacious patio area […]