With his vivid Grand Prix studies, James Stevens has become a true master of portraits, even when the star subject is limited to a pair of eyes peering out from a full-face helmet. Visitors to his sta

Exhibition of the week Nan Goldin: The Ballad ...

This early 19th-century cottage in Padstow, owned by Jess and Ash Alken-Theasby, has lived a long and varied life. ‘It was originally a little fishing cottage, but it’s had several interesting uses si

ROB POINTON IS NOT AN ARTIST who waits for inspiration to arrive. He goes out to meet it – on station platforms, street corners, rain-lashed pavements and ceremonial parade grounds – easel planted fir

Train Landscape , 1940, watercolour on paper, 17¼in ...

OIL ARTIST, PETER BROWN, is better known as ‘Pete the Street’ because most of his work is completed outside in cities such as Bath and Bristol, as well as elsewhere in the world. He paints street scen