Your Paintings - Oil paintings in UK museums

Your Paintings is a website which aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings. It is driven by the BBC in association with Public Catalogue Foundation (a charity that catalogues works in museums in the UK) and many museums and art galleries across the country.

At the moment, they have 63,000 works online with a goal of putting 200,000 paintings on the website.

It is possible to search by Artists and by Galleries & Collections.

Another interesting feature of the project is that all visitors can help improving the search capabilities on the site by tagging pictures.

Visit Your Paintings website.


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Sir Peter Blake on the Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander / Sunday Times Watercolour Competition

The Times online offers a video of Frank Whitford discussing with Sir Peter Blake the Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander / Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.

Asked about the particularities of the watercolour medium, Sir Peter answers:
“The main rule is to keep your paper wet as long as you can. So, you are almost painting backward. Instead of applying paint from the beginning, you are remembering that the eye has to remain white until the very end. So, it is a kind of negative process.”
In this interview, Peter Blake discusses:

• His experience as juror for juried art shows,


• The winners of this year competition,


• White in watercolour,


• His work in watercolour

Click here to watch the video.


Sir Peter Thomas Blake is an English pop artist born on 25 June 1932 in Dartford (Kent). Some of his paintings are exhibited at Tate Modern. He also designed some famous album cover, including The Beatles' album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band .