Painting primrose hill

OIL ARTIST, PETER BROWN, is better known as ‘Pete the Street’ because most of his work is completed outside in cities such as Bath and Bristol, as well as elsewhere in the world. He paints street scen

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ROB POINTON IS NOT AN ARTIST who waits for inspiration to arrive. He goes out to meet it – on station platforms, street corners, rain-lashed pavements and ceremonial parade grounds – easel planted fir

The historian, author and former director of planning and development at English Heritage tells Anne Cuthbertson about his life and work in the capital

For artist Nellie Shepherd, the landscape outside her painstakingly renovated farmhouse is just as important as the colourful scene inside it

When Kamal Hussain moved into a mill-workers’ cottage in the village of Saltaire in Yorkshire, the tiny public-facing garden – by the towpath of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal – was little more than pavi