Let's Celebrate
Put your party hat on and feast with these enchanting artworks that will surely inspire your artistic side to celebrate the vibrant colours of life. Because life is a celebration.
Celebrating Diwali ‘festival of light’ in the Asian African community in Kenya. One of the most important celebrations for the Hindu culture.
Highly saturated in colour, this rich image of an exotic beach filled with yellow kites is an idyllic conception of a community coming together for a moment of celebration. This elongated landscape sees a central hub of people slowly filter out to either side as kites whip around in the wind up above.
The dark, almost mathematical precision of this New York skyline is juxtaposed against a small scene of hedonistic resistance. Emerging out of the night is a group of silhouetted revellers suspended high up in a New York skyscraper.
The major art installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red at the Tower of London marked one hundred years since Britain’s involvement in the First World War. Created by artists Paul Cummins and Tom Piper, 888,246 ceramic poppies progressively filled the Tower’s famous moat between 17 July and 11 November 2014. Each poppy represented a British military fatality during the war.
The annual Balloon Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico is one of the largest balloon festivals in the world. Each year over 600 balloons take to the sky, culminating in the iconic Mass Ascension. Balloonists and their fans gather from all over the world for this spectacularly colourful event, captured here by Leo Mason.
When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls. – Ted Grant.
As David Yeo tells us, “not content with dressing the family house, the beloved family car has the same treatment. It’s large angular frame being softened with Christmas lights and a large red bow against a backdrop of red and striped flags to compliment the Christmas holiday scene.” It’s an image of mid-West Americana, cooly captured by Yeo.
This image is about energy, vibrant expression of thought, communication and enlightened ideas. It evokes the presence of those who walk the halls and corridors of the Palace of Westminster.
Mark’s Aqueous series has won a multitude of awards around the world, and has become highly collectable. Fashioned from multicoloured paint set free underwater. Working with different hues of paint at different densities, he drops them into the water to create complex kaleidoscopes of colour that he calls ‘alien’.
An authentic Samburu blessing located in the The Milgis, Kenya. Fire was made with sticks and elephant dung; elders walked for 50miles; warriors were adorned with feathers; women adorned with beads and ochre.