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Come to 1880s Montana and meet the first African American woman Star Route mail carrier in the United States — the real Mary Fields

Nell Brookfield draws from the unsettling details around her to inspire hyper-stylised vignettes Formless hairy creatures and long-nailed women with fur coats and red skin – the worlds within Nell’s paintings depict surreal yet strangely comforting figures and scenes which shouldn’t make sense, but somehow do. Words “Unheimlich” – it’s a word that means unhomely or uncanny. It’s also a word which could be used to describe Nell Brookfield’s spine-tingling paintings. The images, depicting minute details that hint to a larger, perhaps more bizarre scene, invoke what some might ...

a href= https://www.royalacademy.org.uk target= _blank The Royal Academy of Arts /a is presenting Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict. Born in Kenya

Stick-figure trees, synthetic blossoms, felt-pen colours - the power of Hockney’s daily iPad sketches of spring in Normandy is stunted by technology

Posted 20 May 2021, by Imelda Barnard This painting seems to depict a tropical idyll, made up of lush foliage and blue skies. Yet a closer look reveals a more violent scene overlaid on top of the verdant green background: disembodied feet are suspended in the sky and hands pull forcefully at ankles. The serpentine coils rising up one of the ghostly figures echo the writhing tree branches nearby and suggest this is very much a fallen Eden. The Paradise Edict 2019, oil on lubugo bark cloth by Michael Armitage (b.1984) Paradise Edict is one of 15 oil paintings by Armit...