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Our columnist Willow Kemp on why acquiring art is something everyone can embrace

As a young girl, Polly Nicolaou was almost always to be found with her playthings under the kitchen table, such that her uncle would often sing, using her middle name: “Polly Mabel, under the kitchen

After illness forced Louise Watson to give up her job as a teacher, she turned to embroidery. Now, she embraces the slow art of sewing as part of a more meditative way of life

THE ROYAL ACADEMY’S SUMMER EXHIBITION makes its selection from approximately 1,800 submitted works. Royal Academicians like Katherine and also Vanessa Jackson, Philip Sutton, David Hockney and Michael

As British contemporary art beats all odds to remain a cauldron of inventiveness and passion, Carla Passino discovers which artists aged 40 or under are on the radar of forward-looking museum directors and curators

Who do you live with and where? I live in Willesden Green, north west London, with my husband, Ned, and our son, Lyon, seven, and daughters Nancy, six, and Celeste, three, and our miniature dachshund,