Reviews

“If you are fascinated by art in general – and the bohemian world of twenties and thirties artists in particular – you’ll love this. Kara Wilson has returned for another of her inimitable portrayals of an artist through words, music and painting ….. this year it’s the divinely decadent Tamara de Lempicka.

Wilson transforms herself into this wild woman of art, who lived in Poland, and whose life was dramatically altered by the Russian Revolution and the rise of Nazism. She was quite saucy for her day, taking many of her portrait subjects as lovers (that’s boys and girls).

Wilson brings this hugely egotistical, witty and talented artist to life marvellously and, for the hour or so of the show, you are transported to a world of glamour, fame and being chums with Picasso and Mondrian. Through anecdote, song and, best of all, painting (she completes a copy of a De Lempicka painting each night), Wilson makes her real in a way that even great biography can’t match”.