Malcolm taylor in conversation with caroline saunders

I STRUGGLED INTO MY LAYERS, picked up my light sketching kit and off I went up into the hills behind where I live. I wasn’t the first to arrive; halfway up the hill I could already hear the cries of e

SOMETIMES MAKING LIFE SIMPLER FOR YOURSELF and avoiding overthinking a process gets you further. In painting terms, using flat colours does exactly that and it may even prove to hold the key to more c

My life in the cheese world stemmed from a geeky fascination with microbial life and how those living microbes can change a food product. I started painting through a fascination with soil microbiolog

The origins of the blue vase I lived for several years in an Art Deco flat in Southwest London. I would visit local markets around the capital in search of interesting decorative pieces, and on one oc

From rustic barns to Riviera villas, Pablo Picasso’s studios were engines of invention. Picasso: From the Studio at the National Gallery of Ireland, in partnership with Musée national Picasso-Paris, t

I lived for several years in an Art Deco flat in Southwest London. I would visit local markets around the capital in search of interesting decorative pieces, and on one occasion spotted several variou