Marriage pan-artistique

The first exhibition in decades to celebrate the life and work of Hampstead-based painter Donald Towner opens at the nearby Burgh House this month. Spanning the interwar and postwar years, Amongst the

John Piper was a modernist who rejected Modernism, a versatile artist who defied categories, but one who remained true to the spirit and detail of the places he painted

A serendipitous move from the country to a bustling high street marked a fresh chapter for Gail O’Reilly, whose 18th-century cottage blends warmth, colour and pattern

In December 1997, we moved from a tiny London garden to our new home, Old Park Barn in Buckinghamshire. It was daunting – a huge leap of faith from gardening in an urban courtyard to essentially an ov

For antiques dealer Val Foster and her husband Philip, part of the attraction of moving south from Nottinghamshire some five years ago was the prospect of making a new home. ‘We’d found a property whi

Hedgerows once seemed a jumble to David Hockney, but a slow drive along a country lane helped him see with greater clarity and embrace ‘the infinite variety of Nature’. Martin Gayford considers the artist’s affinity for landscape