Sketches from life

LUCIA LEYFIELD IS NOT AN ARTIST prone to grand statements. Her work speaks in subtle tones: sketchbook pages filled with weathered doorways, overheard conversations or fragments of wild gardens. A let

As with one of her great friends and creative partners, David Bowie, Tilda Swinton is an avid reader. It’s fun to delve into old interviews and just bump into another weird and wonderful literary refe

BOHEMIANS A BLOOMSBURY INGÉNUE The lives ...

The Americans are even more prone than the British to the biographical doorstopper as a way in which to honour the lives, minute by minute, of their famous dead. Walter Isaacson and Jon Meacham are am

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

I t takes all sorts. Some readers, for ...