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Algarve resident artist, Liz Allen, explains her unique art and how Monchique’s awe-inspiring landscape has served as great inspiration for her paintings and...

<strong>Other lives:</strong> Painter, printmaker and teacher to artists in Wales and Suffolk

A memorable page in the history of the Senglea parish was written 50 years ago when, on September 4, 1971, Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro adorned the statue of Maria

Spike Island, Bristol VERONICA RYAN is an outsider by circumstance as much as by choice. Born in Montserrat, she came to Britain as a child as part of the Windrush exodus. When at the Bath Academy of Art, Ryan was the only black student for the first two years of her course. In a new environment, she would be noticed first and foremost for the colour of her skin and this would cause her considerable anxiety. As she does now, she understood then that separateness is both sovereignty and independence and has resolutely resisted being pigeonholed. Ryan’s visual sensibilities and the aesthetic ...

Last modified on Wed 26 May 2021 04.53 EDT Had you been in the Gibbs Building at King’s College, Cambridge, one summer’s day in 1969, you might have come across a pair of English artists taking tea. The older was the Bloomsbury painter Duncan Grant, then 84. The younger, halfway through his tenure as the university’s first artist-in-residence, was Mark Lancaster, who has died aged 82. It was, variously, an unexpected pairing. Lancaster, at the time, was painting works such as Cambridge Green, now in the Tate collection – resolutely modernist, grid-based acrylics, seemingly derived fro...