Artists

The great British weather. Totally unpredictable and a topic of conversation that never gets boring! One thing you can be sure...

Portraits can say so much with so little. Portraiture requires a very high level of skill and it's an amazing form...

Who doesn’t love pop art?! It’s fun, it’s loud, it’s colourful and gets noticed. It’s from an art movement that’s over...

Sally Lancaster is a Devon-based artist who specialises in figurative art. She is largely self-taught, and her paintings focus on movement...

Halloween and art goes hand-in-hand from making decorations to face painting. Whether you're spooked by Francis Bacon or terrified of William...

Some ideas come at the most inappropriate times and I have to jot them down while they’re fresh. I always have...

There was excitement in the gallery this Friday as up-and-coming artist Ery Burns was being filmed for a new special promotion...

On my retirement from parish ministry the move from a vicarage to a smaller house meant that space was limited for...

This is for everyone who has been told to "stand back please" when examining a piece of art. This month we...

Mother’s Day is just around the corner (26th March – put it in your diary!). Today we look at mothers who...

Hi I’m Linda. I am an artist because I flit from one idea to another... and the ideas take over my actions and I must run with them and let them happen. It you’ve ever asked ‘is this art?’ or thought ‘that’s not art’ or asked ‘what is art?’ then my answer is... it is somebody’s idea... and they have followed it... made it... then its...

One hot summer’s day, a few years ago I lay on the lawn looking my oil painting of lilies on canvas...

Buying art online has revolutionised traditional markets, making it possible for buyers to view work that otherwise might be hung on a gallery wall hundreds of miles away, attracting a limited and often ‘local’ audience. It does however limit the questions that a buyer can ask about how the work is created, especially when artists are using mediums that the buyer may not be familiar with...