Neja's Art Walks

Neja's Art Walks Explore London’s art galleries with an art historian — private guided tours. Art and History walks in London, Online Art Talks

We offer tours of the following galleries: Tate Modern, Tate Britain, National Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Wallace Collection, British Museum, The Courtauld and more.

Welsh artist Louise Pickard (1885–1965) was one of the most distinctive painters working in Wales during the first half ...
03/06/2026

Welsh artist Louise Pickard (1885–1965) was one of the most distinctive painters working in Wales during the first half of the twentieth century. Known for her richly coloured interiors, still lifes and landscapes, Pickard developed a style that balanced decorative beauty with a strong sense of structure and atmosphere.

Born in Swansea, she studied at the local art school before continuing her training in Paris, where she absorbed the influence of modern European painting. Her work often reflects the quiet elegance of the interwar period: carefully arranged spaces, bold colour relationships and an attention to light that gives even ordinary scenes a sense of intimacy and calm.

To book our art walk of Tate Britain, or any other art galleries in London, please do get in touch.

Adriana Varejão is one of the most influential contemporary Brazilian artists of the past few decades, known for works t...
29/05/2026

Adriana Varejão is one of the most influential contemporary Brazilian artists of the past few decades, known for works that confront the lasting legacies of colonialism and violence. Her paintings and sculptural installations are instantly recognisable for their cracked and ruptured surfaces, which seem to split apart and reveal something visceral beneath.

Drawing on the visual traditions of Portuguese tilework, Baroque architecture and decorative wall painting, Varejão creates works that are both seductive and unsettling. In Monocromo redondo Guan, a cool circular surface gradually opens into a branching, vein-like network that spreads across the composition before fading at its edges — suggesting blood vessels, river systems or incomplete maps of the body and landscape.

Balancing beauty with unease, Varejão’s work explores how histories of power, trauma and cultural identity remain embedded beneath polished surfaces. Her work is held in major international collections including Tate, and she is currently representing Brazil at the Venice Biennale alongside Rosana Paulino.

Niko Pirosmani (1862–1918), was a Georgian painter who posthumously rose to prominence. Relatively poor for most of his ...
28/05/2026

Niko Pirosmani (1862–1918), was a Georgian painter who posthumously rose to prominence. Relatively poor for most of his life, he worked a variety of ordinary jobs. His rustic, everyday scenes are celebrated today for their depiction of the Georgia of Pirosmani’s lifetime, and he has become one of the country’s most beloved artistic figures.

A small selection of our favourite paintings which prominently feature the colour red from The National Gallery collecti...
25/05/2026

A small selection of our favourite paintings which prominently feature the colour red from The National Gallery collection ❤️

For centuries, painters have turned to red to create drama, emotion and visual intensity. It is the colour that immediately draws the eye — used to signal power, passion, danger, luxury, love or spiritual significance. In many historical paintings, red pigments were among the most expensive materials an artist could use, making the colour not only visually striking but also a symbol of status and importance.

From rich crimson robes in Renaissance portraits to the bold, expressive reds of modern painting, artists have used red to shape atmosphere, direct attention and bring energy into a composition. These works show how one colour can completely transform the mood of a painting — warm, theatrical, intimate or unsettling — while remaining endlessly compelling across different centuries and styles.

To book our art walk of London's art galleries, please get in touch.

Lee Bontecou (1931–2022) is best known for her extraordinary wall-mounted reliefs, where biological, mechanical and cosm...
19/05/2026

Lee Bontecou (1931–2022) is best known for her extraordinary wall-mounted reliefs, where biological, mechanical and cosmic forms merge into something both unsettling and deeply poetic.

One of the artist’s rare works on canvas, Untitled (1985–2001) emerged from a decades-long cycle of drawings and reflects Bontecou’s idea of the “worldscape” — a space where landscape, organism and imagined terrain dissolve into a single field of energy and transformation. Defined by sweeping, wave-like forms and luminous pastel tones, the work captures the artist’s fascination with movement, light and the mysteries of the natural world.

Suspended somewhere between abstraction, science fiction and ecology, Bontecou’s work still feels radically contemporary today.

Happy International Museum Day from NEJA’s Art Walks! 🎨✨Today we celebrate the power of museums to inspire curiosity, pr...
18/05/2026

Happy International Museum Day from NEJA’s Art Walks! 🎨✨
Today we celebrate the power of museums to inspire curiosity, preserve stories, and connect us across time and cultures. Here’s to the artists, museum professionals, visitors and, of course, guides who keep art alive in our everyday lives.

Aleksandr Rodchenko’s Maquette for “War of the Future” is a small-scale model for an experimental Constructivist stage d...
18/05/2026

Aleksandr Rodchenko’s Maquette for “War of the Future” is a small-scale model for an experimental Constructivist stage design. Instead of traditional theatre scenery, Rodchenko created a dynamic, machine-like space made of geometric structures, ramps, and industrial forms. The work reflects the Russian avant-garde fascination with technology, movement, and the idea that modern theatre should feel engineered rather than decorative. It imagines the future — and even war itself — as mechanical, fast, and radically modern.

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At just 15 years old, Charlotte Cuhrt (1895–1989) sat for this extraordinary portrait by Max Pechstein. The daughter of ...
16/05/2026

At just 15 years old, Charlotte Cuhrt (1895–1989) sat for this extraordinary portrait by Max Pechstein. The daughter of Berlin solicitor and avant-garde patron Max Cuhrt, she meets the viewer’s gaze with remarkable confidence: dressed in vivid red, wearing a dramatic dark hat and an oversized ring, she appears both elegant and self-possessed.

The portrait was created in 1910, when Pechstein was at the height of his career and a leading member of Die Brücke, the groundbreaking movement that helped shape German Expressionism. Influenced by Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch and the Fauves, Pechstein developed a bold, emotionally charged style that pulses through this work.

Even the frame matters here: the portrait was displayed in a custom-made, altar-like wooden setting as part of a decorative scheme for the Cuhrt family’s luxurious apartment on Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm. Painting, design and interior space became one immersive modern artwork.

To book our See the National Gallery with an Art Historian walk, please do get in touch.

Lucian Freud created over 50 known self-portraits—including paintings, drawings, and prints—spanning six decades, from 1...
15/05/2026

Lucian Freud created over 50 known self-portraits—including paintings, drawings, and prints—spanning six decades, from 1943 to the early 2000s. He turned his scrutinising eye on his own changing body at every stage of life, experimenting relentlessly with unusual angles and compositions that pushed the boundaries of self-portraiture.

Rembrandt van Rijn was another prolific self-portraitist; he created nearly 100 self-portraits over the course of his 40-year career.

Happy 26th birthday to Tate Modern!One of the most important and inspiring spaces for contemporary art in London — and w...
11/05/2026

Happy 26th birthday to Tate Modern!

One of the most important and inspiring spaces for contemporary art in London — and we’re very happy to have been doing our NEJA’s Art Walks there for the past 10 years.

Thank you for a decade of Turbine Hall conversations, unforgettable exhibitions, new discoveries, and endless reasons to keep looking closely at art.

Here’s to many more years 🖤

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