ART: Art with a literary thread

This month, a show of portraits opens at The Jam Factory by two Oxford-based artists, Tom Croft and Mark Haddon. Putting on an exhibition of portraits is a first for author Mark Haddon who is best known for his writing which includes the best-selling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, …

ART: Portraits – a picture tells a thousand words

In this world of camera phones and selfies, the portrait harks back to an age when the world was slower-paced, and yet despite the advent of digital photography, having a portrait painted today is still particularly valued as something rather more special. Part representation and part biography, a portrait is often a way of marking …