A return home, of sorts, for ‘the two Roberts’, the Bloomsbury linked artists and lovers MacBryde and Colquhoun, who lived and worked in Lewes for two years shortly after WW2. This is the first major exhibition in England since 1962 to chart the remarkable arc of the influential pair’s artistic journey, from the charged atmosphere […]

Vanessa Bell’s unconventional life story often overshadows her work as an artist, and this exhibition works hard to make amends. Featuring over 100 paintings and decorative arts, and claiming to be the biggest-ever solo show of her oeuvre, it demonstrates just how experimental Bell was.

On the first floor of this outstanding partner venue to Charleston in Firle, you can see one of the most important groupings of modern British art in the country, offering an intimate perspective on the development of modernism across Europe. The Radev Collection gives us a rare chance to get up close with work by […]

Bloomsbury fringe member Patricia Preece was the wife of Stanley Spencer, and a much lauded mid-century painter in her own right. Or was she? Her marriage to Spencer was never consummated, and there is intriguing evidence that most, if not all, of her exhibited work was painted by her long-term lover Dorothy Hepworth.