He painted matchstick men…

Paintings by the 20th-century painter LS Lowry are gaining in value: a recently discovered work entitled The Mill: Pendlebury sold for £2.3 at the Christie’s Modern British evening sale in January 2020.

Barbara Rae CBE RA, who had until 2020 been travelling widely for artistic inspiration – latterly in the Arctic - found herself grounded in Scotland by the pandemic. But what wonderful ground to be grounded in. She turned her attention to home territory: the Lammermuirs, the hills running from East Lothian to the borderlands, in the south-east of Scotland.

British Art Fair announces the launch of SOLO CONTEMPORARY, a new space at the 31st edition of the fair dedicated to showing the very best contemporary British art.

This highly acclaimed exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, featuring Mod Brit greats has been extended till September 4.

The splendid Frank Auerbach show at Newlands House Gallery in Petworth, spanning 60 years of the Anglo-German artist’s remarkable career, closes on August 14.

Zavier Ellis talks about Solo Contemporary at The British Air Fair, his own gallery, representing Hugh Mendes, and balancing being an artist with being a gallerist.

One new feature of the British Art Fair 2022 will be the ‘Solo Contemporary’ stands, on the Second floor of the Saatchi, curated by Zavier Ellis, of Charlie Smith Gallery.

The Redfern Gallery, in Cork Street, is one of London’s longest-established Modern and Contemporary art galleries, founded back in 1923, when Mayfair was a rather less salubrious place.

Adrian Hill Fine Art opened in Holt, Norfolk in July 2013 to showcase quality and diverse works from private collections and some of the best-known names in Modern British art.

You might be forgiven for taking PJ Crook’s painting Oneday for an early ModBrit work from the 30s, with the stylised newspaper readers betraying their social class by the hats they are wearing.

In 1969, David Hockney was commissioned to produce 39 etchings for the series ‘Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm’; he worked on them from May to November of that year. They were published by the Petersburg Press, in association with the Kasmin Gallery, New York, in 1970.

Is there another ModBrit artist who lived as interesting a professional life as Julian Trevelyan, the painter, printmaker, teacher and writer?

If Martyn Mackrill hadn’t been a marine artist, he would almost certainly have become a marine engineer.

Pace Gallery have announced the sad passing of the Swedish-born American artist Claes Oldenburg, on Monday July 18, aged 93.

Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious met on their first day at the Royal College of Art in 1922, and immediately became firm friends.

The exhibition includes Freud’s only known sculpture, The Three-legged Horse (1937) and early paintings, including The Palm Tree (1944), gifted to his aunt, Anna. There will also be better-known works, drawn from galleries and private collections, ranging across the artist’s 60-year career.

The first week's bookings for Margy Kinmonth's new feature-length documentary about Eric Ravilious have way exceeded expectations and this carefully crafted, poignant movie will be showing in cinemas around the country, throughout the summer.

Browse & Darby have represented the painter Diana Armfield since 1979, and the Cork Street gallery will display her Centenary Exhibition – postponed since 2020 – until July 28.

Piano Nobile have announced their representation of the estate of the late American-born painter R.B. Kitaj, who spent the bulk of his prolific working life in England.

Kerry Harding lives in Cornwall, and the Cornish landscape is the subject of her work.