With the Natural History Museum playing host to the best display of wildlife photography around, The Notebook decided to catch up with some of the prizewinnning photographers… Clash of the Yellowhammers © Fergus Gill / Veolia Enrionnement Wildlife Photographer of … Continue reading →

London-based artist Rory Mackay is making waves across the Atlantic with his pet portraiture, writes Abi Millar. (Rory Mackay) Rory Mackay, on the day we speak, is just about to head off to America. Pet portraiture is a multimillion dollar … Continue reading →

Guido de Costanzo has made a career from linking creation with destruction. Abi Millar meets an artist who makes or breaks his work with a drop. Image by Jon Day. Imagine you’ve spent six weeks on a project. You’ve poured … Continue reading →

Kitsch Bliss: Jeff Koons debuts his first London show at the Serpentine Jeff Koons smashes art’s elitism with a Popeye-like strength, says Dominic Dawes Jeff Koons • Acrobat 2003–09 • Polychromed aluminium, galvanised steel, wood and straw • 228.9 x … Continue reading →

‘One & Other’, the Antony Gormley project currently taking place on the Fourth Plinth, is more than just an entertaining variety show, says Abi Millar. Antony Gormley’s plinth in Trafalgar Square is shaping up to be the talking point of … Continue reading →

Design High, Louise Blouin Foundation, 3 Olaf Street, W11. 020 7985 9600. 10am-6pm Tues-Fri (open till 9pm Thurs); 12-6pm Saturdays. Runs > 30 August. (Pablo Reinoso • Spaghetti Bale • 2008 • Wood and Steel • H 253 L 320 … Continue reading →

The Art of Friendship an exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Cartoons by LIZ KNEEN (1943 – 2007) and Sculptures by CAMILLA SHIVARG 9—30 JUNEGallery 286, 286 Earls Court Road, SW5. 020 7370 2239. Private viewing 14 June 12 noon-3pm and … Continue reading →

Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair 5-14 JuneOlympia Grand & National Halls, Hammersmith Road, W14 8UX. 020 7370 8211. 11am-7pm; £14 A Fair to Remember The Olympia Summer Fair was established 36 years ago and attractsover 30,000 visitors every year. … Continue reading →

Art dealer Celia Purcell is holding her second Earls Court exhibition, Celia Purcell Contemporary, at the Troubadour Gallery this month. As an art gallery owner, you learn a few tricks. Certainly, nothing you would ever have gained in education. I … Continue reading →

It is hard to believe that Sandra Lofts only started painting five years ago. Her work, a sensuous layering up of texture and colour, evokes a more abstract Turner, or a Rothko minus the moroseness. To hear that she is … Continue reading →