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Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers

I grew up in a working-class family in Hove. My father was a milkman and there were almost no books in the house. My first attraction was to the comic strips in the Daily Mirror and the illustrations

“I HAD NO INTEREST IN STAYING STILL,” says Phoebe Stewart Carter of her early ambitions. Her father had worked with a wildlife conservation company in Washington D.C. for the first 12 years of her lif

No chance to travel? No problem: from Italy with Pompeo Batoni to the US with Edward Hopper, you can tour the world with artists instead, suggests Maev Kennedy

WITH TYPICAL UNDERSTATEMENT, and an admirable sense of humour, Lizzie Coles describes her background as “a little more eclectic” than she’d planned. Having loved drawing since she was a child, she was

The piece I’d never part with