Visual Studies

Why Artists tone the canvas before starting a painting.

Proportion is not beauty. It’s discipline. Hans van der Laan rejected visual mysticism in architecture and replaced it with measure, sequence, and bodily perception. As a Benedictine monk and architect, his work became foundational to the Bossche School, where space is not composed to impress the eye, but... See more

Jackson Pollock is well known as the poster boy of Abstract Expressionism, while Lee Krasner’s role as an architect of the movement is far less recognised. Her pioneering approach to space, repetition, and gesture undoubtedly played a crucial role in developing the now-iconic style.