English artists

Gary Bunt’s hugely popular nostalgic paintings celebrate uncomplicated life, but his art is by no means simple, finds Laura Gascoigne, as she looks at some of the paintings featured in his show ‘Seeds, Sea and Snow’ at the Portland Gallery.

Has anyone ever asked you to read books to change your life? Here are the 21 best life-changing books that altered my understanding of life. (+ some more from recent years)

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Morning paper, Kim English, Artist, Plein Air Painter, Figurative Paintings, Genre Paintings Original Oil paintings

Harvest Festival Gifts The First Born A Boy With A Pig Beautiful Morning Breakfast Time Brick Bridge, Swinemoor, East Riding Of Yorkshire

Rembrandt, "Portrait of the Artist" (detail) (all images courtesy English Heritage, The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, via Met Museum)

Completed: 2018

Not too long ago, when I featured Emily Sutton’s gorgeous watercolours and bird sculptures here at Alphabet Soup, I promised to also spotlight her partner Mark Hearld. Prepare yourself for ev…

With her huge, dramatic collars, ghostly pallor and flaming curls of red hair, Queen Elizabeth I’s image is etched in royal history. Trained from a young age to see power and strength in public image, she cultivated a persona that was both pure and powerful. Unwed and without children, she portrayed herself as the chase,...