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My Favourite Painting: Clare Moriarty
Clare Moriarty of Citizens Advice pushes the boundaries of our feature by choosing not a painting, but a sculpture. Or rather, a series of thousands of sculptures: Anthony Gormley's 'Field for the British Isles'.
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My Favourite Painting: Charles Foster
The writer, barrister and veterinarian Charles Foster on a dramatic seascape by Konstantinovich Aivazovsky.
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In Focus: Edouard Manet, the man who shocked France with nudity, executions and everyday life
Edouard Manet relished goading the French establishment, yet longed for the artistic recognition that came mostly after his death, laments Michael Prodger.
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Country Life 2 November 2022
Country Life 2 November 2022 looks at what London would look like if the wrecking ball hadn't held sway in the 20th century, the pros and cons of an open fire versus a wood-burning stove, and follows in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg — plus, it includes our annual Gentleman's Life supplement.
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My Favourite Painting: Jean-Louis Sebagh
‘I love the beauty of the woman’s back; her elegant, naturally confident pose; and the fact that she is serenely contemplating herself.
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My Favourite Painting: The Duchess of Rutland
The Duchess of Rutland chooses a portrait of the woman who was her most eminent predecessor.
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My Favourite Painting: Clare Matterson
Clare Matterson of the RHS chooses an abstract image.
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Paul Cézanne: Stubbornness, single-mindedness, and the struggle to capture sensations on canvas
Determination, rather than innate brilliance, made Paul Cézanne a great painter, but he was always more at home in his native Provence than in the Parisian art world says Caroline Bugler.
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Britain's political cartoonists: Speaking truth to power for 200 years
Cartoonists have been holding political figures to account since the Georgian era. Charles Harris retraces the history of a proud tradition of British satire.
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Fine Art Lighting: Making light work
Beautifully lit paintings and prints that have been expertly positioned and displayed will transform any interior, says the Hon Patrick Howard, founder of Fine Art Lighting.
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My favourite painting: Greg Pickup
Conservationist Greg Pickup chooses a portrait of an early gay rights activist that is simultaneously shabby yet charismatic.
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A pretty thatched cottage in the South Hams that is close to some of Devon's best beaches and coast walks
Trethule Cottage, in the pretty Devonshire village of Thurlestone, balances coastal chic with elegant period features.
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In Focus: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, the poem of broken modern civilisation that seems more apt than ever
On the 100th anniversary of its publication, Julie Harding asks why T. S. Eliot’s great poem The Waste Land, with its devastating vision of a broken modern civilisation, still resonates so strongly today.
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Country Life 28 September 2022
Country Life 28 September 2022 looks at walking dogs, makes game pie, visits Poundisford Park and gets caught in cowpat crossfire.
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My Favourite Painting: Christopher Woodward
Christopher Woodward of The Garden Museum picks a Lucian Freud from his organisation's upcoming exhibition.
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My favourite painting: Tessy Ojo
The chief executive of The Diana Award chooses a picture that will inspire you to find 'people who will help you stand tall and not make you shrink'.
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In Focus: Jeremy Houghton, the equine artist on The Queen, capturing movement and inserting the odd secret flamingo
Jane Wheatley meets Cotswolds artist Jeremy Houghton.
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In Focus: The copyright lawyer who turned his hand to a 3,000-year-old artform
Jane Wheatley meets Nigel Calvert to discover how glassblowing fulfils him in a way that poring over hundreds of pages of legal fineprint could not.
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My favourite painting: Frances Spalding
Art critic and historian Frances Spalding chooses an unusual work by Hans Holbein the Younger.
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In Focus: The rural Surrealist bringing a touch of Dalí to the Cotswolds
Surrealism meets romance and whimsy in the work of David Blakemore, as Jane Wheatley finds out.
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My Favourite Painting: Rachel Trevor-Morgan
The Queen's milliner Rachel Trevor-Morgan picks Lady Agnew of Lochnaw by John Singer Sargent.
