Turner, Ravilious, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Ivon Hitchens, Edward Burra, Eileen Agar, et alia . To accompany this winter's exhibition at Pallant House, Chichester.
A paean to Blake, who will be 90 in December. And oh, how we wish him well! And celebrate it with this excellent sweep of his life and work, from earliest drawings to his recent biro sketche... read more
"The story of C20th Britain, viewed through the lens of the artists' lives": this is less art history and more an artists' history. A wide-ranging, detailed, sympathetic account, with some p... read more
The Tate exhibition is a retrospective of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but it also features the largest exhibition there has been of Elizabeth Siddal's work.
This fine illustrated biography frames GJ amongst her contemporaries, in the studios of the Slade and in the Paris salons: Matisse, Maud Gonne, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Rodin, Rilke... Many i... read more
Delightful flower paintings: small bunches of flowers - often wild - in a gorgeous array of mugs, jugs and bowls. Mostly gesso on small panels, with a slightly folkloric feel. Published by a... read more
A joyous and detailed biography of this extraordinary man, whose house in Cambridge is still a sanctuary for the artistically-inclined. His circle included Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Henry... read more