If most of us were asked who our favourite modern artist was, we’d be stuck for a reply. Any other time period and we might say, Turner, Picasso, Cezanne, Constable …

But today we simply don’t know too many modern artists, and those we do tend to specialize in unmade beds and pathetic collages of everday objects.

I did a piece a while ago about an artist who sent a sculpted head, mounted on a bought-in plinth, to the Royal Academy’s prestigious Summer Exhibition in London. Unfortunately, the head got separated from the plinth during transit.

A panel of worthies duly examined the entries. They rejected the head but accepted the plinth, which was probably made in China.

However, all is not lost. The lovely Amy Crehore, a favourite of our own Marshall Sponder over at Art NYC, continues to paint delectable pictures with a faintly mythic quality. Here’s her latest. it’s called Wild Cat Fever :

You can view it over on Art NYC.

You can also see an interview with Amy Crehore over on our Celebrity at Work site.