First impressions

Babies grin gummily, seemingly submerged deep inside inky pools of turquoise. Women lie back in washes of magenta or violet. Then the focus changes as if the lens of a camera has been switched and the

My father wasn’t an artist, but he did life drawing for fun. His pastels and drawings from friends were all over the house, and sometimes, I would go and draw from the figure as a young kid. Like most

Dominic Carter talks to the interior architect-turned-artist about creating characters with personality and working on Magic: the Gathering

Screen break Tanya Combrinck finds out that creative talent alone won’t open doors to the movie industry

AWARD-WINNING ARTIST, RICHARD CLAREMONT, is based in Australia. After graduating from Sydney College of Arts in the late 1980s, he started working as a postman to supplement his income. He set up tiny

IF ART IS A REFLECTION OF ITS MAKER’S WORLD, then Magdalena Starzyńska’s is one of order, rhythm and silence, balancing structure with softness. Nature is her constant theme, not as a postcard-perfect