Pictures with a big story

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

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

The ‘Mona Lisa of manuscripts’, finally on view

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

A line in a sermon by John Donne so struck Stanley Spencer that he turned it into a painting. Now, a study for the picture is on offer at the British Art Fair