The fear of failing

You will learn That setbacks are part of the creative journey How to use them as learning opportunities To build confidence via achievable challenges All artists, regardless of skill level, experience

I was born and grew up in Bristol, which wasn’t the polished art mecca it is now. The dock area was scattered with derelict remnants of industry. However, this presented an exciting playground for us

Nothing is as joyful or as transformative as paint, says Joa Studholme, the creative genius behind some of Farrow & Ball’s most cherished colours. From a scarlet door to a bedroom dunked in a soothing oatmeal shade, the Colour Curator reveals how she turns a lick of paint into a ‘moment’

“I HAD NO INTEREST IN STAYING STILL,” says Phoebe Stewart Carter of her early ambitions. Her father had worked with a wildlife conservation company in Washington D.C. for the first 12 years of her lif

I grew up in a working-class family in Hove. My father was a milkman and there were almost no books in the house. My first attraction was to the comic strips in the Daily Mirror and the illustrations

From George Stubbs’s golden vision of the labourer’s place in society to Ford Madox Brown’s heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work, as Michael Hall reveals