ST IVES, ENGLAND — For Ithell Colquhoun, the world was alive. Energies, mythical forces, and solar alignments imbued landscapes with powers that wove together human beings, ecologies, and the cosmos, ...

In the rush to rediscover artists who have been unfairly marginalized by art history’s reverence for white men, a new name is coming to the fore. The painter, writer, and occultist Ithell Colquhoun ...

Among the countless theories as to the purpose of Stonehenge, one of the more curious is that it might have been a musical instrument. Back in 2014, two academics from the Royal College of Art, Jon ...

LES COLQUHOUN, who has died aged 80, was a photographic reconnaissance pilot with No 69 squadron whose daring coverage of Axis positions in southern Italy and Libya contributed significantly to the ...

Ithell Colquhoun’s fecund, fleshy paintings were soaked in mysticism. But was she running my life from beyond the grave? I am a travelling entertainer. I spent decades in secondhand bookshops in ...

Is this a safe space to share how much I loathe the blockbuster art exhibition? Overcrowded galleries full of gawpers taking photos of famous paintings, with no room to engage with an artist’s life’s ...

WHEN Christopher Barker was seven years old, his mother – Canadian writer Elizabeth Smart, the author of the cult novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept – took on a new “nanny-housekeeper” ...

Tributes have poured in for Maureen Colquhoun, the UK's first MP to publicly come out as a lesbian, who has died at the age of 92. Labour leader, Keir Starmer, hails the politician as a "champion of ...