In praise of ‘bento’s sketchbook’

The recording artist Simon Fisher Turner wields an impressively varied CV. Entering showbusiness as a child actor, he endured a brief spell as a teen pop idol before evolving into a sharp-eared curato

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Anthony Lawrence, a New Forest artist, painted everything from Dante’s Inferno to portraits of Ian McKellen and Yehudi Menuhin. This October, Palais des Vaches presents the first major retrospective o

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

Call her a chameleon, call her a shape-shifter, call her the heir apparent to transformative performers from Lon Chaney to David Bowie: since the start of her screen career Tilda Swinton has taken joy

John Maybury was a fellow graduate of the Derek Jarman school of filmmaking, and it was in those heady, early days that he first became aware of Tilda Swinton. The pair worked closely on two challengi