Learn a new skill

This month, celebrate the change in season with countryside-inspired homeware designs, learn the art of still-life oil painting and decorate with classic stripes

Self-taught potter Benjamin Hall is a man of many talents, from singing and songwriting to creating beautiful, folk-inspired ceramics

REFERENCE PHOTO My photograph was taken on the banks of the flooded Kennet River near Marlborough in Wiltshire. I admired the twisting floodwaters encroaching the banks and enveloping the associated w

Using a painting to envisage a room–or record it for posterity–provides an exciting alternative to digital technology, says Arabella Youens

Anita Nowinska found her long-forgotten box of pastels while rummaging through a battered suitcase, using only a candle for light as her power was cut out. “By candlelight I created my first flower pa

New paints and papers, selected by Amelia Thorpe