Britain has always looked seaward. As an island nation, the coast is never far away, either geographically or imaginatively. It appears in British art as a place of work, danger, m
If you have ever walked into a gallery, seen a sentence on a wall, a pile of paper on the floor, a plain chair, or a short instruction pinned to a panel, and wondered how this coun
If you have ever stared at a painting that seemed to shimmer, pulse, bend, or move even though it was completely still, you have already experienced the strange thrill of Op Art. S
Romanticism is one of those art terms that many people have heard, but fewer feel confident explaining. We tend to associate it with swirling skies, shipwrecks, dramatic mountains,
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
Ask ten people to picture landscape photography and you will probably get ten different answers. For some it is dramatic mountain ranges and mirror calm lakes. For others it is a s
