Wolfgang Tillmans, (born August 16, 1968, Remscheid, West Germany), German photographer whose images of the everyday span from street photography to portraiture to landscape and still life to abstraction. In 2000 he became the first non-British artist to win the Turner Prize, and he was a recipient of the Hasselblad Award in 2015. Tillmans first experimented with photography in 1987 by enlarging found photographs with a photocopier. He bought his first camera the following year. In the late 1980s he immersed himself in the club scene and gay nightlife in Hamburg and began taking pictures at that time. He submitted
The Vail Valley Art Guild is sponsoring an abstract painting workshop with Denver Art Students League artist Christian Dore. The one day, two-part workshop is for all levels of artists.
AN artist and popular hairdresser from Weymouth has been painting unique gifts to surprise people around the globe during lockdown. Stephen Bithell, who has worked as a hairdresser in Weymouth since the 1990s - including at the former Blondz salon, and, more recently, Pure in St Mary Street - has turned his hand to sending surprise watercolour postcards around the world. Father-of-two Stephen, who attended the former Bournemouth and Poole College of Art before becoming a hairdresser, has been painting and drawing all his life from as early as he can remember and has held exhibitions in the town. Mr Bithell said he has been fascinated with postcards since childhood, when his father was posted abroad with the Royal Navy and would send postcards home from all over the world.