JMW Turner and John Constable were contemporaries and artistic rivals at Royal Academy exhibitions. Rivals and Originals at Tate Britain offers a chance to see their paintings side by side and trace their diverging approaches to landscape. Initially similar, their work became radically different from each other. Above: Turner's York House Watergate (1795), Snow Storm: Steam Boat off a Harbour Mouth (1842) and self-portrait of 1799. Turner and Constable were both accompl

A visit to the William Nicholson exhibition at Pallant House Gallery was a great way to brighten up a cold January day. I had seen Nicholson's Silver Casket and Red Leather Basket at a previous exhibition and I knew he was the father of Ben Nicholson, who had been one of the pioneers of British abstract art. I thought that was the extent of my knowledge but stepping into the first room of this gorgeous exhibition, I recognised many of the prints on display, especially the o

Heene Terrace was built in 1865, along with Heene Hotel (now the Burlington), as the first part of the development of West Worthing. At that time, the western boundary of the main town was at the Old Coastguard House, and the village of Heene was beyond, with open fields between. There was a collection of cottages at Little Heene, on the site of today’s Thorn Road and Brunswick Road, which the town officials regarded as hovels inhabited by loafers and smugglers. The new West

Petworth is a quaint market town in the heart of the South Downs National Park. I spent a couple of days there in June and enjoyed the...

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...