Zoë Atkinson Fiennes
Art in Times of Great Upheaval, Uncertainty and Fear.
The next day, the world changed. COVID-19 became a reality. We were ordered to stay in our homes. What was outside, was unsafe...
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"If we really think about what is important in life, it’s a handful of things. We work like crazy to obtain so many other things but usually we don’t need many of these things, not really. At the centre of human life is, I think, love - the connection of love, the search for the energy that is love, this energy that connects all the things around us".
Andrea Roggi
Artist and Sculptor
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Zoë Atkinson Fiennes, Founder
Feb 3, 2020
Voyage Beyond the Surface of a World
For the first time since its inception in 1991 The Florence Academy of Art is opening its gilded doors in the form of an online portal...
Three Graces Galleries
Jan 8, 2020
STEFANIA ORRÙ II, THE ICON: transcending the aesthetic canon of our time.
...a specific way of producing an object that wasn’t an ‘artwork’ in the way we understand it now...it was a kind of door to experience...
Three Graces Galleries
Nov 1, 2019
STEFANIA ORRÙ PART I: Beyond appearances, decoding the nature of our existence
...Then I expressed a need to represent my face, not specifically in a self portrait, but working on an image which was not only my face but
Zoë Atkinson Fiennes, Founder
May 31, 2019
Vicente Romero & the Beauty of Now
...that image lingered in my mind for weeks that became months and the woman the artist had captured so vividly had in the space of a few mo
Zoë Atkinson Fiennes, Founder
Apr 14, 2019
Love in the Time of Existence
…my figures, people, physically embrace together as one, that’s the first thing that you notice when you see my sculpture. But inside this
Zoë Atkinson Fiennes, Founder
Feb 19, 2019
Daniel Graves and the Continuum
We have, all of us, inherited our languages - they precede us and we do not own them. But in their ancient wisdom...
Zoë Atkinson Fiennes, Founder
Feb 8, 2019
ART IN THE CITY - Bologna
But this sudden and sharp cold white landscape try as it might could not dampen spirits or disuade travellers from far and wide to make thei
Three Graces Galleries
Jan 1, 2019
PAOLO TROILO: The Gift of Existence
My work is simple in that it is an expression of doubt, that uncertainty surrounding the human condition. We have no concrete answers and t
Zoë Atkinson Fiennes, Founder
Nov 3, 2018
EMANUELE DASCANIO I At the Heart of Everything
Time plays its own role in the act of a work’s unfolding: it is born through the artist’s contemplation and the forging of a real connection
Zoë Atkinson Fiennes, Founder
Oct 13, 2018
Art & Feng Shui
In layering feng shui principles surrounding art over the backdrop of themes we have already begun exploring we will see how all these theor
Zoë Atkinson Fiennes, Founder
Aug 29, 2018
THE POWER OF THE IMAGE
Through the language of images an artist we might never have met, can touch us to our very cores.
Zoë Atkinson Fiennes, Founder
Aug 18, 2018
Make Your Art Work For You: art as a tool for self-fulfilment
Have your ever heard the saying, ‘don’t work for money, let money work for you’? Apply this to art and it can become your tool for self-ful
Three Graces Galleries
Jun 10, 2018
The Fate of Contemporary Architecture.
Like any material object the city in its physical form can also be abandoned. But the occurrences within its walls, and the imprints left i
Three Graces Galleries
May 20, 2018
Events: The Florence Academy of Art presents Richard Greathouse
In a lowly lit room with a high and imposing beamed ceiling, shafts of light fall gracefully over the works of art. Out of the enfolding...
Three Graces Galleries
May 15, 2018
William Morris - Intelligent Beauty
'We ought to get to understand the value of intelligent work, the work of men’s hands guided by their brains,and to take that, though it
Three Graces Galleries
Apr 29, 2018
INTERVIEW: Italian illustrator Giulia Caliò
I have been drawing since I was a child. Both my grandfather and my father were highly accomplished painters and it was they who taught me..
Three Graces Galleries
Apr 15, 2018
Point of View: wonder in the world of Giulia Caliò
One can’t help be transported by Giulia Caliò’s fantastic animals and their floral and watery worlds. Tails and wings beating, they swim and
Zoë Atkinson Fiennes, Founder
Apr 1, 2018
Illustration & Imagination
I’ll be honest and say that I am a novice in the world of illustration. I have memories of course, of the beautifully illustrated...
Three Graces Galleries
Mar 18, 2018
The Seven Functions of Art
“What if art had a purpose that can be defined in plain terms? Art can be a tool, and we need to focus more clearly on what kind of tool it
Andrew Clegg, Musician & Composer
Feb 25, 2018
Musician & Composer Andrew Clegg
The What is Art? Series: Musician & Composer Andrew Clegg
Three Graces Galleries
Feb 22, 2018
The Florence Academy of Art
Entering the gates of The Florence Academy of Art, its symbol embossed in gold at the crown and knowing much of the academy’s illustrious re
Zoë Atkinson Fiennes, Founder
Feb 16, 2018
Antonio Canova & The Three Graces
Rome, Italy Many will be familiar with the exquisite marble sculpture The Three Graces by Italian sculptor Antonio Canova, an artist who...
Three Graces Galleries
Jan 28, 2018
Martin Heidegger & The Origin of the Work of Art
An exploration of Martin Heidegger’s famous essay 'The Origin of the Work of Art'
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