Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the British visionary artist Ithell Colquhoun’s paintings, writing and eccentric life.

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Saturated with innuendo: detail from Edward Burra’s John Deth (Hommage to Conrad Aiken), 1931 - The estate of Edward Burra, courtesy Lefevre Fine Art Tate Britain’s latest offer? Two exhibitions for ...

Ithell Colquhoun, Genius of the Fern Loved Gully, Amy Hale. Strange Attractor Press. Amy Hale has done an excellent job of writing a fascinating book which is well worth the investment of time and ...

Is this a safe space to share how much I loathe the blockbuster art exhibition? Overcrowded galleries full of gawpers taking photos of famous paintings, with no room to engage with an artist’s life’s ...

Inspired by thefirst major exhibition of visionary artist Ithell Colquhounthat is currently on show at Tate Modern, this is part 1 of our Ithell Colquhoun inspired series– and the theme is'Automatic ...

Just how much of a Pop artist was Keiichi Tanaami? The answer may depend on how you define the movement, which mutated as it traversed the Pacific and made its way to postwar Japan.

The juxtaposition isn’t obvious but neither is it forced: although it’s unlikely they ever met, the 20th-century British artists Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun were born only a year apart, to upper ...