I have long been a fan of the Rococo - that peculiar stylistic trend that amplified the excesses of the Baroque with a frilly twist of its own in the mid to late 18th century. As a teenager on a trip to Paris with my family, I remember being totally transfixed by the painting of the pierrot, sometimes called Gilles, by Watteau in the Louvre. My gauche 15 year old self seemed to find some empathy in the forlorn looking clown caught between regret and apprehension. My pleasure

One of the most well known and beloved small paintings must be The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius. An enigmatic image painted by an...

I am just back from Paris where I saw the Hockney retrospective at the Frank Gehry designed Fondation Louis Vuitton, on the edge of the...

The magnificent Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery in London which closed at the weekend has been visited by almost 300,000...