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For the October Art Diary, I feature exhibitions by several artists whose work I have championed through essays and exhibitions, as well as solo and group shows that explore environmental, social, and spiritual concerns.

Books in Bloom is this year's theme for Firsts London, the UK's leading international rare book fair at the Saatchi Gallery in London's Chelsea from 15 to 18 May 2025 with over 100 dealers from around the world bringing a wide range of rare books, manuscripts, maps and prints.

Spanning four centuries and diverse cultures, this show of more than 7o works, including paintings, prints, drawings and objects, explores the mysteries and myths of the world beneath our oceans

A rare watercolour by Edward Bawden, lost since the 1940s, has come to light at Olympia Auctions, London, where it will be included in a sale of Fine Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculpture on Wednesday 12 June, 2024.

Compton Verney, WarwickshireThe Georgian mansion turned world-class art venue celebrates its birthday with a trio of excellent exhibitions that reflect on the colonial past, explore the inner lives of women and non-binary artists, and look anew at landscape painting

Some of the biggest names in art are exhibiting new work to honour renowned designer Edward Bawden.

Original prints by some of the most collected Modern and Contemporary artists will be featured at Chiswick Auctions鈥� February 13 Prints and Multiples sale in West London.

The fact that the Imperial War Museum has one of the largest collections of modern British art in the country will come as a surprise to those many people who think of it principally as a place to take children to look at tanks, guns, aeroplanes and trenches.

The fact that the Imperial War Museum has one of the largest collections of modern British art in the country will come as a surprise to those many people who think of it principally as a place...

This gem of a gallery has devoted half its enfilade to a pastoral mode of painting that sprang up on this island in the shadow of the second world war.

Nocturnal landscapes and cityscapes illuminated by silvery, crescent moons, ruined cottages covered in tangles of undergrowth and anxious figures sheltering in shadowy woodlands and bombed-out streets 鈥� all hallmarks of British neo-romanticism.

"This gem of a gallery is dedicated to the work of pioneering Essex-based artists, from Eric Ravilious to Isabel Rawsthorne."

In a recent article by Martin Bailey in the Art Newspaper, the search for a vanished mural by Edward Bawden was revived.

The Garden Museum does what it does best with a glorious evocation of the British garden in the interwar period

Apollo鈥檚 monthly survey of the most exciting works to enter public collections shines a light on the gaps museums have been able to plug and the new stories they are looking to tell.