Leon kossoff

The greatest decade for British painting since Turner and Constable? The 1970s

5 July 2025 9:00 am

Slowly the canvas was unfurled across the concrete floor of a warehouse on an industrial estate in Suffolk. On and…

‘Landline Star’, 2017, Sean Scully

A beautiful exhibition of a magnificent painter: Sean Scully at the National Gallery reviewed

20 April 2019 9:00 am

Sean Scully once told me about his early days as a plasterer’s mate. At the age of 17 he was…

Catherine Lampert, 1986

Dizzying swirls of impasto

6 June 2015 9:00 am

With a career of more than 60 years so far, Frank Auerbach is undoubtedly one of the big beasts of…