“people are blown away by the patterns

Leah Wood became a painter by way of opening for David Bowie and sashaying down the catwalks, but Nature now lights up her artistic imagination and underpins her efforts to campaign for the environment

MOST artists have big plans when they start on a new piece of work. David A Lindon always has small plans. Very small plans. In fact, absolutely tiny. He’s a world record-setting micro artist who is l

Norwich’s Assembly House will come alive this November as Art Fair East returns for a four-day celebration of contemporary art. More than 1,000 works by local and international artists will be on disp

Together with ancient armour, Egyptian cats and illuminated manuscripts, this year’s Frieze Masters sees a colourful work by an even more colourful character, a Nigerian prince who set out to make ‘contemporary Yoruba traditional art’

WORKING in a stable, controlled environment is the reason most artists choose to paint at home or in a studio. Keeping canvases dry and away from the elements is a good reason for not working outdoors

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers