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Art UK is an art education charity and the online home to every public art collection in the UK. Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday!
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For thousands of years, grids have been used by artists, designers, architects and many others.

Explore drawings that feature grids 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/drawing-with-grids-a-framework-for-imagination

🧑‍🎨 Frank Helmuth Auerbach (1931–2024) © the artist's estate. 📷 Ingram Collection
January 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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'Old Letters' attributed to Frederick Walker (1840–1875) 📸 Walker Art Gallery
A woman in a pink dress sits by a window and reads a letter
January 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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New story 📣

Read 'Drawn out: exploring the self with drawings and words' 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/drawn-out-exploring-the-self-with-drawings-and-words

'I Am Destroy' by Olivia Rowland (b.1994) © the artist. 📷 Colin Mills, courtesy Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize / Drawing Projects UK
January 17, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders is currently on at Charleston in Lewes.

Read about the artists' work in this story 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

'The Fortune Teller' by Robert Colquhoun (1914–1962) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman. 📷 Tate
January 16, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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Some great choices for today's colorful #OnlineArtExchange 🌈🎨

We'll be back next Thursday with the theme motherhood for Anna Ancher: Painting Light at Dulwich Picture Gallery

'The Celebration' by Glenys Cour (b.1924) © the artist. 📷 Museum Wales
Abstract composition of bold, irregular shapes in blue, orange, green, and yellow on a white background.
January 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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We have a story about Marlow Moss by Lucy Howarth on Art UK.

Take a look 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...
January 15, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is bold & colourful art! 🎨 In his work, Marc Vaux combines expanses of colour with hard-edged geometry. He highlights "the endless potential of colour alone to communicate, affect and modify response."

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January 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Knot, Bernard Cohen,
Ulster Museum. ©the artist/Flowers Gallery. Bernard Cohen grew up in Leytonstone & went to South West Essex Technical College. 🖼️ National Museums NI. artuk.org/discover/art... For @artukdotorg.bsky.social's #OnlineArtExchange on bold & colourful art for Colour at Tullie Carlisle
Knot, by Bernard Cohen 1962, Ulster Museum. © the artist/Flowers Gallery. Image credit National Museums NI, via Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/knot-121780/search/actor:cohen-bernard-b-1933/page/3
January 15, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange celebrates bold and colourful art

This is a favourite from our collection, 'Turn Hay' by #Motherwell artist Millie Frood artuk.org/discover/art...
A colourful oil painting of two figures moving hay with forks. The hay is represented by streams of white, yellow and red colour. The background is rendered in contrasting blues and greens.
January 15, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Tying in nicely to today's colourful themed #OnlineArtExchange – take our latest quiz on the colour blue 💙

Do you know your ultramarine from your azure?

👉 https://artukdotorg.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-the-colour-blue/

'Totes Meer (Dead Sea)' by Paul Nash (1889–1946). 📷 Tate
Surreal landscape of fragmented, skeletal airplane parts scattered under a crescent moon in a desolate, barren terrain.
January 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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This week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about bold and colourful art!

Our pick is Jacqueline Kerr’s City Altar. Jacqueline, a printmaking graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, spent time in Italy in 1993 on a John Kinross Travel Scholarship.
January 15, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is bold and colourful art for our exhibition 'Colour' 🌈

We are lucky enough to have a Hokusai in the exhibition courtesy of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.
January 15, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is bold and colourful art 🌈

This is 'The Counting House', Helen Briggs (2005).

This is an iconic building in Pontefract, captured in vivid technicolour.

See this and many more in Picturing Pontefract, opening at Pontefract Museum 2 Feb!
A vivid technicolour re-imagining of The Counting House in Pontefract, a half-timbered building from the 1600s. It is in bold block shades of yellow, pink, purple, orange and green against a blue sky.
January 15, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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Great choice @alpineclublib.bsky.social 🗻

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Today's 🎨 @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is bold and colourful art for Colour: A season of shades, tints & tones at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social

We've chosen this depiction of Monte Rosa by Robert Tuckett Pain, from 1870
Monte Rosa valley
January 15, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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A very colourful work picked by @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social for today's bold and colourful art themed #OnlineArtExchange 🌈

Share your choice with the hashtag, there's plenty to choose from 👉 artuk.org
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is bold and colourful art for Colour: A season of shades, tints & tones at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social 🌈

'A Woman's World' by Mary Watts from Hackney Museum

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Colorful painting of a busy fabric store, with women shopping amidst vibrant textiles. Mirrors reflect the crowd, creating the illusion of an endless, bustling scene.
January 15, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is bold and colourful art for Colour: A season of shades, tints & tones at Tullie Carlisle 🎨

Share your colourful artworks with the hashtag! 💙

'Cyan Bloom', 2014 by Michael Eden (1955-)
January 15, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Tomorrow's #OnlineArtExchange theme is bold and colourful art for Colour: A season of shades, tints & tones at Tullie Carlisle 🌈

See you there!

'Red Magnolia' by Stanley Spencer (1891–1959) © the estate of Stanley Spencer. All rights reserved / Bridgeman Images. 📷 Tullie Carlisle
Close-up of pink magnolia blossoms on branches against a blurred green lawn background.
January 14, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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The first exhibition of Impressionists included work by only one woman: Berthe Morisot 👩‍🎨

The artist was born #OnThisDay in 1841.

Find out more about her 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/four-women-impressionists

📸 1) The Courtauld / 2) Tate / 3) National Gallery
Portrait of a woman, she looks at the viewer, with her hair up and plaited. She wears a light grey ruffled dress, with two purple flowers on the chest. Her hands are in her lap. A portrait of a woman, with short hair and earrings. She looks at the viewer wearing a light-yellow frilled dress. Two women wear straw hats, in a boat on a lake.
January 14, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Exciting! Our The Superpower of Looking learning resource explores this mysterious painting 🔎

Uncover its hidden details with your primary school class 👉 artuk.org/learn/learni...

🧑‍🎨 Hans Holbein the younger (c.1497–1543) 📷 National Gallery
Two men stand in a richly decorated room with scientific instruments and musical items on a table between them
January 13, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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Remembering David Bowie, 10 years on ⚡

Discover artworks of one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century in this Curation 👉 artuk.org/discover/cur...

It also highlights some important changes at Art UK that have helped increase Bowie's presence on our site 💻
Coloured red and blue etching of David Bowie smiling with his head leaning back
January 12, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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John Singer Sargent was born #OnThisDay in 1856 🎈

He worked on one of his most famous works for a few minutes each evening when the light was right. He started it in 1885 and continued in summer 1886.

'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose' by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) 📷 Tate
Two children in white dresses stand in a grassy garden holding paper lanterns. White flowers and other glowing lanterns surround them
January 12, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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For over 20 years, London School of Mosaic brought creativity and community to London.

Read about their work 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/piecing-it-together-the-work-of-london-school-of-mosaic

🧑‍🎨 Tessa Hunkin (b.1954) and London School of Mosaic © the artists. 📷 Jon Cardwell
January 11, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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British sculptor Barbara Hepworth was born #OnThisDay in 1903 🎂

She was a hugely important figure in the development of British abstract art 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/barbara-hepworth-from-wakefield-and-st-ives-to-the-world

🧑‍🎨 Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) © Bowness. 📷 Pier Arts Centre
January 10, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Last days to apply 📣

We're looking for a Schools Officer to join our friendly team – you will support the delivery of our innovative learning programme, The Superpower of Looking.

Apply by 9am on Tuesday 13th January 2026 👉 https://artuk.org/about/jobs
January 9, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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A great first #OnlineArtExchange of the year 🎨🌟

Next week's theme is bold and colourful art for Colour: A season of shades, tints & tones at Tullie Carlisle

'Angel' by James Powell and Sons and John Hungerford Pollen (1820–1902) 📷 The Stained Glass Museum
Stained glass window depicting an angel with red and yellow wings praying against a blue circular background.
January 8, 2026 at 5:30 PM