Sketchbooks: animals

Can’t get out on safari? Let the wildlife come to you with these beautiful books. Amy Davies selects some recent releases for your shelf

Manelle Oliphant

As a young girl, Polly Nicolaou was almost always to be found with her playthings under the kitchen table, such that her uncle would often sing, using her middle name: “Polly Mabel, under the kitchen

THE ROYAL ACADEMY’S SUMMER EXHIBITION makes its selection from approximately 1,800 submitted works. Royal Academicians like Katherine and also Vanessa Jackson, Philip Sutton, David Hockney and Michael

LORI MEHTA’S ART is all about stripping away the excess to reveal what really matters. After years in graphic design and raising her children, Lori returned to painting, finding inspiration in the lig

The piece I’d never part with