Redressing the balance for female painters

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

A new exhibition of Neo-Impressionists celebrates an influential art patron

With a strength of character that belied her fragile looks, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun pushed the boundaries of royal portraiture and, after the French Revolution, challenged the loss of female influence via every frill and fold in her work

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

Exhibition of the week Between Sleeping and Waking ...

26 September to 19 December 2025 This focused exhibition presents over 80 works by Walter Sickert from the Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, many unseen publicly for decades. Paintings, drawings and p