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I've done a lot of life drawing over the years at a variety of places, from scruffy art college classrooms at Chealsea and Camberwell to...

I was really looking forward to the National Gallery’s latest blockbuster exhibition Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers . The gallery website...

The Courtauld Gallery exhibition Monet and London: Views of the Thames  brings together a group of paintings that were first exhibited in...

Clapham Wood is a place I've visited many times in the spring, when the whole place is covered in bluebells. I remember going there with...

This Pallant House Gallery exhibition, called The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain , starts with Dutch paintings from the...

Low tide reveals big ragged flints, smooth little pebbles, lumps of chalk, sculptural hag stones and worm casts, all strewn across the...

I love wandering around historic houses and Charleston, near Lewes in East Sussex, is a particularly delightful place to visit, being the...

I consider the sea off Worthing as my little bit of the English Channel. Sometimes it's a clear and beautiful aqua-green colour,...

Surprising, magical and spectacular are the best words to use when describing the Collector Earl’s Garden at Arundel Castle. As a Sussex...

This exhibition at Tate Britain explores the importance of costume in John Singer Sargent’s portraits of members of high society in the...

I love visiting gardens and there are some places not too far from Worthing where you can enjoy amazing examples of garden design,...

I recently visited the marvellous Pallant House Gallery in Chichester to see the retrospective exhibition of John Craxton, called A...

I left my home town to study for a degree in Art History at Middlesex University, at the Trent Park campus just north of High Barnet....

In December 2009 I spent some time in Talywern in Mid Wales. The journey from London was long, with multiple changes of trains, and I got...

I spent a lot of my youth watching old movies on TV. I was mad about Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn and Montgomery Clift. I...

Timber groynes are designed to control the movement of sand and pebbles parallel to the shore line by wave action, known as longshore...

The Grade II listed mansion at Sedgwick Park in Nuthurst near Horsham dates from the seventeenth century and it's surrounded by glorious...

I fell in love with a place call Talywern, a hillside hamlet six miles east of the market town of Machynlleth in the county of Powys, Mid...

Rust is an iron oxide formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of moisture. Given sufficient time, any iron mass in the...

Having recently discovered First & Last (a shop selling gorgeous things) I went there for the private view of Tidal Paintings by Trevor...