Pursuing excellence

GEOFF ALLEN IS A WATERCOLOUR ARTIST and tutor from San Diego who specialises in painting en plein air. He started his artistic career as a scenic painter in Hollywood, but then began teaching drawing

Cheri Wang takes you through her fascinating process for building a fantastical yet believable world, filled with detail and beauty

Exhibition of the week Anna Ancher: Painting Light ...

Kahchun Wong remembers vividly the moment it happened. ‘With an orchestra, you know it when it clicks, when there is a chemistry,’ he recalls. ‘I went to the first rehearsal without any expectation. I

Amateur botanist John Bradby Blake and his collaborators never completed their illustrated record of Chinese flora, but they still stoked Britain’s passion for the Asian country’s plants

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