My favourite painting the duchess of marlborough

The garden at The Holt, Hampshire The home of Mr and Mrs Edward Wake

At the magical Goodwood Art Foundation, a pineapple perches on a chalk bank, 16th-century music bathes an ancient copse and Rachel Whiteread’s cast of the underside of stairs climbs Escher-like into the sky. Charlotte Mullins goes exploring

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

IT being the season for the painted purple ...

Tracy Marshall-Grant considers…

When summer beckons, it is answered by a chorus of glorious roses that fill an enchanting Isle of Wight garden, created from scratch by Derek and Louise Ness