etching

The art of printmaking in all its glorious complexity

2 May 2026 9:00 am

Holly E.J. Black highlights the differences between the feathery delicacy of an etching, the bold forms of a linocut and the carved sinews of an ancient woodblock

From colander to bed of nails

20 February 2021 9:00 am

I first became aware of the work of Marcelle Hanselaar in a mixed exhibition at the Millinery Works in Islington.…

Queen Victoria’s ‘State Barge’, 1866–7, by James Henry Pullen

The ‘idiot’ artists whose surreal visions flourished in Victorian asylums

7 July 2018 9:00 am

In G.F. Watts’s former sculpture studio in the Surrey village of Compton, a monstrous presence has interposed itself between the…