A love supreme

Last April, Brett Tryner, director of Fine Art at Cheffins in Cambridge, took an intriguing call from a potential client. She had a collection of Tirzah Garwood artworks in her possession – could she

EMILY PONSONBY’S PAINTINGS STRIP AWAY everything but the essentials: skin, scars and the stories they carry. Using beeswax and oil, she sculpts figures that feel weathered and alive, sometimes faceles

Cecil and his pug dog in his indoor ...

The piece I’d never part with

From Raphael and the mysterious Fornarina to Jan Steen with his flirtatious Margriet and Suzanne Valadon, who broke many hearts until she lost hers to a much younger man, Nick Trend explores five romances that made art history

Rejuvenating this substantial 19th-century property has been a labour of love for Nina and Sam Ward, but they maintain it’s been worth the setbacks and the expense to achieve their forever home