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• Simon Brett obituary

  07-04-2025 18:49
  My dad, Simon Brett, who has died aged 81, was a leading wood engraver, prolific writer, curator, teacher and champion of other artists. His Wood Engraving – How to Do It (1994) remains the classic manual.Simon was instrumental in reviving wood engraving as a fine art. Over the 60 years of his working life, he made more than 1,000 engravings, including private commissions, bookplates and independent work on themes including politics, war, ethics and religion, that stretched the boundaries
  
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• Fred Eversley obituary

  07-04-2025 17:27
  Artist associated with the Californian Light and Space movement whose resin sculptures drew on his training as an engineerIn 1969 Fred Eversley was living in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, surrounded by artists from the loosely constructed Light and Space movement, which cultivated a futuristic mode of sculpture defined by its minimalism and geometric abstraction. He was relatively new to artmaking, but knew from his former career as an aerospace engineer that to make a true parabolic sculpture &nda
  
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• Curtains, wellies, nuclear subs and a tsar’s palace: how William Morris mania swept the world

  07-04-2025 09:00
  
  His unmistakable floral patterns – awash with willow, blackthorn and pimpernel – are now on everything from walking sticks to the seats submariners sit on. We go behind the scenes of a dazzling new showHe has papered our walls and carpeted our floors, enlivened our curtains, coats and cups, and even infiltrated Britain’s nuclear submarine fleet. Almost 130 years after his death, the Victorian arts and crafts designer William Morris has blanketed the world with his unmistakable
  
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• National Gallery sleepover prize draw offers chance to dream among paintings

  07-04-2025 06:00
  
  London gallery’s competition marks 200th anniversary and opening of Sainsbury Wing after two-year overhaulAs far as sleepovers go, it’s a one of a kind: an overnight stay in a luxury bed in the middle of the National Gallery’s exhibition rooms, dreaming under the world’s greatest paintings.Perhaps you’ll be inspired by the venerated artworks to pick up a paintbrush, or you’ll have a surreal experience like Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum, whose character &n
  
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