It was under unusual circumstances that Dr Gajinder Oberoi decided to spend time on pastels rather than patient pain.

The Palace of Versailles swooped in and scored a legendary Adélaïde Labille-Guiard portrait at auction using the French right ...

Understanding control and layering is what truly unlocks the potential of soft pastels in portrait drawing, and this artwork demonstrates that principle with clarity. The portrait is developed ...

This week in Newly Reviewed, Will Heinrich covers Jana Euler’s delightful absurdity, Lotty Rosenfeld’s portraits of the ...

A Canadian took an unpaid internship in London despite £30,000 in debt and managed to live in Notting Hill on just £80 a week ...

Beloved in Finland, Helene Schjerfbeck is just becoming hot in Manhattan, where a show of paintings at the Met Museum is likely to leave you awe-struck.

Tim Herron and the Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists group have been capturing portraits for many years, growing their ...

Everything she did was self-taught. Because she was such a phenomenal artist, people assumed that she had formal training, ...

Turner and Constable, Rivals and Originals, Tate Britain, November 2025Whoever thought of creating an exhibition comparing ...

Nationalmuseum has acquired pastel portraits by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Henry-Pierre Danloux and Joseph Boze, three artists active during the golden age of pastel in 18th-century France. Apollo’s ...

Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year ...