Art can be intimidating if you feel you are supposed to have the right words or the right education before you are allowed an opinion. In reality, the basics of art appreciation ar
There are artists whose work you recognise before you know their name. Jackson Pollock is one of them. A web of paint flung across a vast canvas, rhythm without a clear beginning o
Walk into a gallery and it is easy to feel slightly overwhelmed. Oil paintings, acrylic abstracts, delicate watercolours, mixed media on paper, giant canvases that fill a wall. If
British female artists have shaped how we see sculpture, painting and installation just as much as their male counterparts, yet their stories still tend to sit slightly off to the
If you spread a pile of old magazines, ticket stubs, envelopes and scraps of packaging across a table, most people would see recycling. A collagist sees a palette. Collage art is a
