Not a pretty picture

BOHEMIANS A BLOOMSBURY INGÉNUE The lives ...

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

A freewheeling Cavafy for modern times

He might be best known for his rollicking tales, but there was always more to John Buchan than derring-do. On the 150th anniversary of the author’s birth, Jack Watkins looks back at a remarkable writing life rooted in the countryside

A new book of bird photography celebrates not only the avian world, but the photographers using creative techniques to produce original artworks, from characterful studio portraits to eye-catching abstracts, writes Graeme Green

‘IT’S NOT A chest, not a butt, it’s not a torso — it’s a butt-chin,” says artist Jwan Yosef in his charming, beautifully polite speaking manner. “It’s fun for me to abstract body parts of mine that ar