Ordovas
Is this female Swedish painter a major rediscovery - or a minor footnote?
In 1896, a group of five young Swedish women artists began to meet regularly in order to access mystical zones…
The artist who only turned into a major painter once he became a homicidal maniac
Charles Dickens’s description of Cobham Park, Kent, in The Pickwick Papers makes it seem a perfect English landscape. Among its…
The painter who channelled the forces of gravity
Tragically, Ian Welsh (1944–2014) did not live to see this exhibition of his latest work. Diagnosed with terminal cancer on…
Four artists you ought to know — and a famous one you can know better
In this round-up of exhibitions in London’s commercial galleries, I feature three shows of little-known but mature contemporary British artists.…
Andrew Lambirth: Emilio Greco's early work is undeniably his best
Emilio Greco (1913–95) is considered to be one of Italy’s most important modern sculptors, and certainly he was a successful…
Eduardo Chillida — the great modern sculptor, whom we shamefully ignore
Eduardo Chillida (1924–2002) is one of the greatest of modern sculptors yet curiously little known in this country. The last…
