Henrietta Graham has gone painting. This requires a week aboard the Karen of Ladram in the North Atlantic, fishing mainly for cod and hake. It gave Graham a whole new…
Art & antiques
Sporting Artist: Mark Hearld
After a short time chatting with mixed media artist Mark Hearld, the rather uplifting realisation emerges that everyone is an artist – perhaps. Certainly everything is art when seen through…
Sporting Artist: Tania Still
RIGHT from the beginning, sporting art has been denigrated or, at best, dismissed as not worthy of consideration. When George Stubbs began work in the 18th century, equine and sporting…
Art heists: plundering the family heirlooms
Hollywood has given art heists – the plundering of family heirlooms – a glamour they don’t deserve, says Ettie Neil-Gallacher
Sporting artist Stephen Henderson on his evocative sculptures of birds and fish
Inspired by wooden decoys and wildlife as a child, Stephen Henderson tells Janet Menzies about his unique passion and style for creating sculptures of flocks of curlew and grebes. Find…
Sporting artist Madeleine Bunbury: equine portrait master
Equine portraitist Madeleine Bunbury, like a magnificent mounted Phileas Fogg, has declared her intention of going Around the World in Eighty Horses. When we spoke she was already in America…
Sporting artist Jonathan Armigel Wade: capturing the joy of country life
Jonathan Armigel Wade’s paintings offer a ‘curvispective’ on the joys of the countryside. He explains his unusual vision to Janet Menzies
Sporting artist Francesca Sanders on the power of landscapes
Francesca Sanders explains to Janet Menzies why landscapes are wrongly underrated, deserving of the same attention as portraits
How Red Rum launched sculptor Philip Blacker’s career
When sculptor Philip Blacker retired as a jockey, his involvement with racehorses was far from over, as he explains to Janet Menzies
How sporting artist Elie Lambert captures the beauty of the horse with vibrant colours
If ever there was a time to love life, now is it, says Janet Menzies – and the art of Elie Lambert is the ideal backdrop to this celebration