The art delights of Paris aren’t always only the obvious ones or the big international galleries. If you dig a little deeper, you find the city has many other gems to explore. Here are just a few of my favourites: Tiny tucked-away artist studios Two…

Seeing a Rembrandt up close is nothing like the experience I thought it would be. So, imagine this: you’ve spent years flipping through art books, soaking up every detail of Rembrandt’s paintings. You’ve marveled at the subtlety of his brushwork, admired his mastery of light,…

Hagia Sophia. Finding treasure in my own family. Here’s why this painting is so precious to me. One evening while I was visiting my family in South Africa some years ago, my sister pulled four boxes out of the back of the cupboard. They had…

There are two ways to think about the question of why artists create: What leads someone to pick up a brush and get started? What drives someone to keep creating artwork? There are different reasons for everyone. Here’s what it is for me: Why artists…

Five Masters’ Iconic Flower Paintings that debunk the idea that flower painting is only for beginners – and they are just the start. Painting flowers is joyful for so many reasons: the colour, the shapes, even the scent. All aspects are sensory, right down to the…

Have you ever wondered how to display artwork at home when you’ve run out of wall space? You see a painting that you’ve fallen in love with and you are bursting to buy it, but there’s just no space left on your walls – not…