The first exhibition in decades to celebrate the life and work of Hampstead-based painter Donald Towner opens at the nearby Burgh House this month. Spanning the interwar and postwar years, Amongst the

Globally acclaimed English tile-maker celebrates 50th anniversary ‘Each tile we make is a piece of art,’ says Doug Watson, who founded an artisanal workshop handcrafting and hand-painting exquisite ce

• In March, Marthe Armitage will be 96 ...

Wrapped in the wild and timeless beauty of North West Wales, its landscape forged by the elemental forces of ice, wind and rain, is an oasis of calm and order. It is the beautiful and unique garden of

In December 1997, we moved from a tiny London garden to our new home, Old Park Barn in Buckinghamshire. It was daunting – a huge leap of faith from gardening in an urban courtyard to essentially an ov

Love and Landscape Stanley Spencer in Suffolk Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, until March 22; Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, April 4 to November 1 Stanley Spencer’s fellow students at the Slade Scho