Tainted Love: Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson To Divorce

Charles Saatchi the gallerist, art collector and ad man responsible for electing Margaret Thatcher to power is filing for divorce from the TV chef Nigella Lawson. This follows the publication of photographs which showed him choking her at a posh London restaurant in...
Dame Laura Knight Portraits:  Beyond The Narrative Frame

Dame Laura Knight Portraits: Beyond The Narrative Frame

The National Portrait Gallery is presenting a new exhibition of the British painter Dame Laura Knight (1877 –1970). Knight was one of the most popular and pioneering British artists of the twentieth century. Her artistic career took her from Cornwall to Baltimore, and...
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott Artist Potter Dies In London Aged 77

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott Artist Potter Dies In London Aged 77

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, the Australian born artist/potter has died in London age 77. Pigott was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1935 and studied Fine Arts at Melbourne University. She trained with Ivan McMeekin in New South Wales and worked with Ray Finch, Bernard Leach...