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The work of the much-loved late Wildlife Artist Pollyanna Pickering (pictured above) will be celebrated in an exhibition to be staged in her private gallery at Brookvale House, Oaker, Matlock in Derbyshire. Pollyanna was renowned as an artist-traveller and her determination to paint only animals which she had observed in …

Comedian Sir Billy Connolly has spoken about being inspired by touring with Sir Elton John in the 1970s as he releases new artwork. The 82-year-old has released four new limited edition works under his Born On A Rainy Day series, via Castle Fine Art, recalling some of the fondest memories …

They draw you in from a distance, promising sheer aesthetic pleasure: pastel tutus, pretty girls. Once you’re there, you look closer. You notice the darkness around the edges; you wonder about the battered foot inside the pointe shoe. Degas’s dancers mesmerise for the same reason as ballet itself. A new …

Britney Spears was “just trolling people” when she danced with knives. The 41-year-old pop star took to her social media on Tuesday (26.09.23) to share an update with her 42 million followers where she donned a low-cut top, white underwear and twirled round with a set of kitchen tools before …

Rupert Grint has paid a glowing tribute to Sir Michael Gambon. The 35-year-old actor – who played Ron Weasley in the ‘Harry Potter’ film franchise – has taken to social media to heap praise on his former co-star, describing Michael as a “personal role model” for him. Rupert – who …

The late Bernie Marsden’s final album ‘Working Man’ will be posthumously released later this year. The former Whitesnake guitarist passed away peacefully, aged 72 on August 23, and had been hard at work finishing the record in the weeks before his death. Bernie oversaw the artwork, sequencing and mastering of …

There is a once-notable aspect of our culture that has reached a dead end, apparently for reasons of naked cynicism. I refer to the subjects of what are now called by Royal Mail, without humour, our special stamp issues. This absurd programme presents second-rate designs highlighting populist trash in the …

Whatever the other glories of the second Elizabethan age, it included a period in the 1960s and 1970s when British art entered a black hole and stayed there. There were exceptions: Lucian Freud, Henry Moore and David Gentleman, in the visual arts; the odd good feature film, mostly by Lindsay …

There’s a common misconception that most scam victims are elderly people who are all too eager to reply to emails from mysterious ‘Nigerian princes’ promising them 30 million pounds if they just send over their bank details. But this isn’t the case: research published by Visa in 2021 found that, …

The spate of doorstep thefts has shocked residents of the idyllic riverside village of Waldringfield, where there were just four burglaries reported last year. The theft of the drawings came after a 5ft model reindeer Lesley York had ordered for Christmas for £50 was taken from his doorstep on being …