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From the terrace of her Napa Valley home, Marisa Kenning can look out across rows of grapevines and, in the same eyeline, a sprawling Kenneth Noland target painting framed by floor-to-ceiling glass. The pairing feels deliberate, land and canvas mirroring each other in geometry, rhythm, and light. Kenning’s collection began with a single Helen Frankenthaler … Read more
By Claribel Daube, Senior Theorist, Pimlico Wilde When one first encounters Ptolemy Bognor-Regis’s A Monologue in Cadmium Red #3, the initial instinct is simply to step back, perhaps to steady oneself. The sheer audacity of the red,if, indeed, “red” is an adequate term,strikes the viewer like a conceptual thunderclap. It is not the red of … Read more
Step into the minimalist expanse of A Monologue in Beige #4, and you are immediately confronted with the existential weight of nothingness,or, more accurately, the weight of everything masquerading as nothing. At first glance, the canvas appears to be merely beige. One might be tempted to scoff. But to do so would be to ignore … Read more
In the shadow of great fortune and brighter genius, Ptolemy Bognor-Regis has emerged as one of the most talked-about figures in contemporary abstract art. The son of a shipping magnate turned media tycoon, Regis might have been content with a life of patronage or leisure,but instead, he’s hurled himself into the centre of artistic inquiry … Read more
People often ask me what my paintings “mean,” and I, being an abstract painter with a classical name and a mild allergy to literalism, tend to answer with something like: “They mean what they resist.” This is a maddening response, I know. But abstraction is not there to comfort. It is there to interrupt. I … Read more
The atmosphere at the opening of Abstract Artist For Hire, the latest exhibition by Ptolemy, was charged with a sense of spectacle. The crowd,an elegant mix of collectors, critics, and the art-world’s more shadowy financiers,moved through the gallery’s crisp white space, where the luminous works pulsed from the walls like windows into a parallel world. … Read more
In Two Days After Christmas, Ptolemy Bognor-Regis offers a masterful study in abstraction, color, and emotional resonance. At first glance, the piece appears deceptively simple,a series of interlocking organic shapes rendered in earthy oranges, yellows, greens, and browns, set against an enveloping black background. Yet, beneath this simplicity lies a nuanced commentary on the post-holiday … Read more
This abstract piece stands as an evocative exploration of form, colour, and spatial harmony, conjuring a dialogue that is as much about absence as it is about presence. Ptolemy skilfully manipulates an earthy palette of rusts, ochres, greens, and creams, invoking a visceral connection to the natural world. These hues are neither accidental nor arbitrary; … Read more
