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130 of London's galleries are putting on exhibitions, talks, and performances for the fourth edition of London Gallery Weekend.

A new book details the life of a woman who spent 12 years as a nun in a monastery where speaking was not permitted.

A friend of Howard Hodgkin, John Hoyland and Patrick Caulfield, he evolved from serene paintings on formica strips to complex collages

Why would a privileged, educated 27-year-old turn her back on life to join a silent order of nuns in remote Northumberland?

Post-war British artist Michael Andrews was a painter of light in his balloons series, and his contemporaries Bacon and Freud in The Colony Room

Walking on water: A selection of newly restored films make clear the continuing relevance of the work of Lorenza Mazetti, a long-unheralded artist who exerted a strong influence on her peers in Britain’s Free Cinema movement of the 1950s and ’60s

Susan Campbell, who has died aged 92, was in a long and varied career an artist and illustrator, a food writer and Britain’s leading expert on walled kitchen gardens, 700 of which she visited in the UK and abroad.

In 1957, when my dear godmother, the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava (1941-2020), was 16, she began her diary. The granddaughter of the Duke of Rutland and daughter of Loel Guinness, an MP, financier and Battle of Britain pilot, Lindy Dufferin had a gilded childhood. Her entries as a teen are like no other: ‘Randolph

<strong>Other lives:</strong> Realist painter who specialised in richly hued canvases that often told the story of his life

Through careful brushstrokes and delicate handwork, Menhat Helmy created a world of art that is distinguished and everlasting. With paintings steeped in color and wonder, Helmy was a pioneer whose talent and influence continue to reverberate through the artistic industry today. Helmy was born in 1925 in Helwan to a family of nine siblings. At