I grew up in a working-class family in Hove. My father was a milkman and there were almost no books in the house. My first attraction was to the comic strips in the Daily Mirror and the illustrations

Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers

GEOFF ALLEN IS A WATERCOLOUR ARTIST and tutor from San Diego who specialises in painting en plein air. He started his artistic career as a scenic painter in Hollywood, but then began teaching drawing

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F reddy Paske’s paintings are charged with movement, atmosphere and a strong sense of lived experience. A former British Army officer, Paske came to painting through an unconventional route, bringing

F reddy Paske’s paintings are charged with movement, atmosphere and a strong sense of lived experience. A former British Army officer, Paske came to painting through an unconventional route, bringing