Series Spotlight - Artistic Inspiration

Although people and science and times change, artistic inspiration often repeats and regenerates. This collection juxtaposes contemporary art with a quote featuring a shared theme by an iconic artist who helped shape the art world as we know it today. 

For example, throughout the generations artists have remained inspired by the intrigue of immortalising the human form, whether fluid and sketchy like Chloe Watts’ work or precise and geometric like da Vinci. Or, from a more practical perspective, the seminal abstract works in colour theory and chromatic interactions made by artists like Josef Albers have allowed artists like Antony Densham to create his textural abstractions, whether sharp-edged like the former or soft and natural like the latter. Even artists’ attitude to something as simple as the natural beauty all around us, whether small or in abundance, have been key to the adaptations of artistic styles, whether the Arts and Crafts movement or Impressionism.

Artists have always benefitted from the leaps and bounds made before them by artists who are memorialised and celebrated in the annals of art history, but now it is up to contemporary artists to figure out what they can reuse or take advantage of and what they should adapt and innovate. Whether using the same subject, same aim, or same inspiration, different artists can create entirely different beautiful and diverse works, impacted by their individual styles and stories. The ability of these artists to rework subjects used many times before promises a bright future of art that will continue to astound and inspire with an endless wealth of variety, regardless of what else may stay the same.