Colart France is excited to share with you some news and exhibits from our recent Artist Collaborators: Enzo Certa for Lefranc Bourgeois, Yoann Merienne for Lefranc Bourgeois, and Mario Picardo for Winsor & Newton. Yoann Merienne – Lefranc Bourgeois Many of you may remember Yoann Merienne from his film “Sculpt the light with black and […]
Genesis of the partnership Back in 2018 and in recognition of Colart Brands’ constant dialogue with artists and attention to contemporaneity, art and culture magazine InsideArt invited Flavie Dirninger (Colart Italia) and Stephanie Nebbia (Global Fine Art Collective), to meet Giorgio De Finis, artistic director for the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (Macro). From this meeting, […]
Liquitex is proud of their ongoing partnership with Sing for Hope. On the 13th of November, we had the honour of launching the London edition of our partnership at Elephant West, Elephant Magazine’s new art and community space. The Sing for Hope London piano, titled “Express Yourself”, was designed and painted by renowned artist Stuart […]
This August, as every month, the artists’ studios situated on the 4th floor of our building in London are busy with promising works! Focus on the Lefranc Bourgeois Residents in London this month Lefranc Bourgeois, our French brand busy preparing the celebrations for its 300th anniversary next year, has organised a double residency, sending two […]
Simon Willems will be presenting his PHD at Elephant West. Simon is one of our TFAC artists for both UK and international. He also featured in the third elephant magazine and will be installing his exhibition at the end of June. The show will have an private view this Friday 5th July from 6pm onwards. […]
Many of you will have heard about our support of Hospital Rooms, the amazing charity set up by long term Colart collaborators Tim A Shaw and Niamh White. We thought it would be great to share some of their latest news, so we asked them to tell us about one of their recent projects involving […]
Issue 39 of Elephant Magazine, that came out earlier in June, features an article about Nazif Lopulissa. You can read the article by clicking here. A Great Colart Collaboration Nazif Lopulissa was one of Robert Rost’s students when Robert, our TFAC Manager Benelux, was teaching at the Willem de Kooning Academy. Later on, Nazif […]
What is the ‘Liquitex White Walls’ project? Liquitex white walls is a great example of how TFAC directs traffic to brand. Each year we create a white walls project either through funded partnerships or through open submissions to engage with leading art schools, as we saw in the fantastic outcome in Spain last month. The […]
As part of a review of the asset-base of the business, and prompted by a discussion with Erik Urnes (our owner’s husband), we identified a few months ago that Colart owned a potentially valuable painting by an artist called FN Souza. In the early 1960s Souza was an up-and-coming yet penniless Indian artist living in […]
Find here the latest of The Fine Art Collective Spain Project in conjunction with Liquitex: Liquitex White Walls with the “Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Fine Arts Faculty” Winning student Lluïsa Penella Pons tells us about her project: “Territorio Fluido” (Fluid Territory). Work “Fluid Territory” in an advanced phase What was the project? The Liquitex White […]
Watercolorist Eudes Correia meets fans in our Paris location and paints in front of Notre Dame Winsor & Newton Watercolorist Eudes Correia, based in Portugal, visited the Charbonnel Artist Engagement Space in Paris a few weeks before Notre Dame’s tragedy. https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/iQ9UIV5a-DWSTVHCZ.mp4 Eudes is brand ambassador and a Winsor & Newton watercolor superuser. He paints […]
Knowledge Transfer Partnership: CSM X Colart As part of the Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Central Saint Martins (CSM) and Colart, CSM were asked to think about unmet artists needs and the impact of digital technology on Fine Art Practice. In the past few years, there has been an increase in artists and curators using Virtual […]
