If you are a regular reader of this column, you will know a few things about me and my relationship with art. You will know that, as well...

“ The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes”. (André Gide) I studied a Gide text for my French 'A'...

Today I am delighted to welcome to my column the second of my Guest Writers, Petra Teršlová, from Kladno, in the Czech Republic. I first...

On May 1st, my guest writer, the outstanding ceramicist Helen Long wrote powerfully about influences and revelations that coloured the...

The name 'Picasso' is on the lips of anyone invited to name a famous artist. He has even become the subject of a thousands-fold...

I have just returned from a short holiday in one of my favourite places on earth, the Languedoc mountains in Southern France, where I...