Winged wisps caught in motion

A new book of bird photography celebrates not only the avian world, but the photographers using creative techniques to produce original artworks, from characterful studio portraits to eye-catching abstracts, writes Graeme Green

LUCIA LEYFIELD IS NOT AN ARTIST prone to grand statements. Her work speaks in subtle tones: sketchbook pages filled with weathered doorways, overheard conversations or fragments of wild gardens. A let

I’VE BEEN DEVELOPING A PORTRAIT STYLE of painting that combines realistic female characters in surrealistic backdrops. The women are usually built through a collage-style process; borrowing eyes, nose

In the past 40 years, ceramics has moved firmly into fine-art territory, opening the door for huge, flamboyant vessels and installations rich in personal expression and experimentation, as Corinne Julius discovers

For broadcaster and naturalist David Lindo, the city offers as many birdwatching opportunities as the countryside. You just need to know where to focus your binoculars

Acclaimed landscape artist Sarah Adams shares how the tides, geology and ever-shifting light of the Cornish coast shape her immersive oil paintings