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AFTER SCHOOL, CAROLINE POOL could have easily applied to her local college to further her art education. Yet, being the last of four children who were all supremely academic, negotiating with her fath

THIS ARTIST IS A PROFESSIONAL working from her London studio in a mix of oils, charcoals and pastels. In addition to portrait painting, she teaches privately and holds weekly classes, while she has ex

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From rustic barns to Riviera villas, Pablo Picasso’s studios were engines of invention. Picasso: From the Studio at the National Gallery of Ireland, in partnership with Musée national Picasso-Paris, t

DECADES MAY HAVE PASSED, but Norfolk still has a claim on David Riches. Wooden sailing boats on the Broads, sunlight on the water, the quiet countryside – they still appear in his work. “If I see a tr

BASED IN NORTHERN IRELAND, Janice Lightowler works in oil and graphite. When working on her oil paintings, she uses only one small brush, irrespective of the size of the piece, and later attaches that