Looking for crumbs that fall from a Rich Man’s Table Sir Edwin Landseer (1802 - 73) Last week I went to one of my favourite London Galleries - the Wallace ...

Earlier this month I gave to talk at the preview of an exhibition of work by six artists, and I was invited to be part of this mix. It is an exciting event, as ...

Golden Eagle in hunting mode My name is Andy Ritchie and I live in Loxwood. As a hobby I am a woodcarver, specialising in wildlife subjects such as birds of ...

Last month I wrote about seeing beauty in unexpected places. This month I would like to share a painting that I recently bought. Firstly let me say it is a ...

Recently an old friend and lifelong art dealer visited my studio, René Gimpel of Gimpel Fils. It was a sociable visit as I know that his dealing activities are ...

Audiences received an excellent evening’s entertainment with the Ewhurst Players’ production of “Quartet” by Ronald Harwood in the penultimate week of May. ...

Sir Dirk Bogarde was born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde of a Scots mother and a Flemish father who was the art editor of The Times. The ...

We have been thanking entities and industrious farmers for bountiful harvests since pagan times. Harvest is the time to celebrate reaping what we have sown ...

To continue this month’s theme, Free to choose, a three course menu of your own choosing. We live in a part of the world where we can go to the supermarket ...

William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944)   Heath Robinson’s main employment was in providing a unique brand of humour to ...

Many Cranleigh youngsters will remember school trips to the TS Gerald Daniel, affectionately known as the “GD”. The ship is a converted Minesweeper that lost ...

Art Of..... Well, anything can be an art form, if time is taken to appreciate it. Speaking, for instance. When we speak, our accents colour our words ...