Susanne du toit: in conversation with susie hodge

BEFORE SARAH JANE BROWN BECAME A PAINTER, she learned to read the sea. Not in the romanticised, windswept sense; but practically, viscerally, day after day. With over two decades working on the water

40 years ago, I was first introduced to the art of small scale painting by a friend who painted miniature portraits. With her encouragement and seeing the variety of work at The Royal Society of Minia

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

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

There are many reasons that an artist’s ambitions can be thwarted, including the decision to become a teacher. Later this month, an exhibition will shine a light on talent obscured by a career in the classroom

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