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Nina Pancheva is a visual artist exhibiting at the ROI for the first time this year.'The painting ‘Realities’ began with finding a label—a label whose ingredients barely resemble food. This discovery provoked a series of questions, mainly about the tension between bread as both a symbol and a word, as well as between words and the meanings they convey. When, in fact, does bread stop being bre …

By Rupert MaasThis is the third part of an article from the FBA archives written by Rupert Maas in 2009.The Artist Explorer was generously funded by Foyle Foundation. Post-Impressionism In 1910 and 1912 the critic, Roger Fry, organised exhibitions of Post-Impressionism (a term which he coined) in London. They were received with shock and horror. Fry was intimately involved with the Bloom …

By Rupert MaasThis is the second part of an article from the FBA archives written by Rupert Maas in 2009.The Artist Explorer was generously funded by Foyle Foundation. Van Dyck brings oils to England It is through Rubens and his famous pupil van Dyck, both Dutchmen, that at last new ideas from Italy were introduced to England, and it was done with portraiture. The Royal court needed like …

By Rupert Maas This is the first part of an article from the FBA archives written by Rupert Maas in 2009.The Artist Explorer was generously funded by Foyle Foundation. Jan van Eyck discovers the secret of oils Much of the early history of oil painting is about what did not happen in our isolated country. The Renaissance that transformed and humanised painting in Italy in the 1500s d …