Tag: look

Ways of Looking – thoughts from a curator

In an earlier piece, we wrote about the work of Amanda Webster and her fascination with light — those fleeting moments when sunlight filters through the landscape, falling in dappled patterns and changing the way we see people and places. But perhaps there is another question worth asking: how do we actually look at a […]

W. R. Boyd: Rediscovering a Forgotten Chester

Sometimes a group of pictures asks more questions than it answers. I recently acquired five framed black-and-white views of Chester. At first glance I took them to be etchings: finely worked architectural scenes, full of the dense cross-hatching, deep shadows and precise lines we associate with the traditional printmaker’s art. Look a little closer, however, […]