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Litro Issue 102: the Dutch Issue

Cover Art

The cover artist for our Dutch-themed issue (January 2011) is Maaike Schoorel, with Self-Portrait in Black (oil on canvas, 2011), courtesy of Maureen Palely, London (www.maureenpaley.com).

Litro Issue 101: the Faith Issue

Cover Art

The cover artist for this December 2010 issue of Litro is Iryna Yermolova. It is taken from her exhibition, The Journey. This exhibition was previously shown at the Red Gate Gallery in London in October 2010.

Yermolova is hugely stirred by the beauty of the English countryside, yet she equally draws a lot of inspiration for her paintings from her Russian roots, childhood in the Ukraine as well as Orthodox religion. The power and sadness of Russian icons has always deeply touches the artist. Experimenting with colours, textures and different materials all brings her enormous pleasure and inspiration. You can find out more about her work at http://irynayermolova.com

This month’s Litro cover artist is Gillian Ayres, one of many talented artists exhibiting at the annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibition now in its 242nd year. Click here on to find out how to become a Friend of Litro and be entered into our competition to win one of 5 pairs of tickets to this year’s Summer Exhibition.

Gillian Ayres studied at the Camberwell School of Art. After leaving in 1950, she began to paint abstracts, with her first solo exhibition being held in the mid-1950s. Ayres was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1989. In 1986 she was made an OBE and in 1991 become a Royal Academician.

Ayres’ early works were typically made with thin vinyl paint making up relatively simply forms from a limited colour palate, but later oil painted works are much more colourful and exuberant, as seen above in this month’s cover  art.