Olivia Greenway visits Deia, and explores why art is so important in this tiny place
For forty years Frank Jennings has made a living from ‘deceptive receptacles’, writer Olivia Greenway fell in love with his work at his Sheet studio
There was a buzz around the Turner Contemporary in Margate as Rodin’s over-life sized marble sculpture ‘The Kiss’ arrived in early October 2011; nearly 4,500 people streamed into the museum over the following weekend to see it. The work, in the entrance to the gallery, is displayed against a backdrop of the sea.
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I heard about the Wallace Collection years ago but it’s one of those places I’ve never got round to visiting. There’s no excuse; it’s just north of Oxford Street from Bond Street station. And yet in the space of a month I’ve now visited twice. Formerly the home of the first four Marquesses of
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The stunning Grade 1 listed neo-classical Victorian building that houses the museum and art gallery was built from a bequest by the lawyer Edmund Harris, who wanted a free library, museum and art gallery to be built in memory of his father, who was the vicar of St George’s church in Preston for most of
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