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The probity of drawing: 90% looking, 10% doing

One of Britain’s foremost landscape painters, Peter Prendergast’s work has recently been collated into a website. http://www.prendergast.co This site, managed by his family, gives an insight not only into the iconoclastic quarry paintings for which Prendergast is renowned, but also into previously-unseen work.  OCA tutor Jane Parry reflects on the work of this consummate landscape […]

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What value art? What value Lucian Freud?

Lucian Freud died in July 2011, aged 88, (see BBC news report which contains an interview with Sue Tilly, one of his best know sitters.) His death prompted renewed discussion about the price raised on one of his most famous paintings: Tilly the benefits supervisor, which broke the record for the highest price paid for […]

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