To bring her surrealist works to life, British artist Ithell Colquhoun employed techniques ranging from fumage to decalcomania, entopic graphomania and parsemage. The first uses smoke from a lighted ...

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 ...

A thought-provoking exhibition of archival material and related artworks celebrating the centenary of the College of Psychic Studies’ move to Queensberry Place in south-west London. London Art Fair is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saturated with innuendo: detail from Edward Burra’s John Deth (Hommage to Conrad Aiken), 1931 - The estate of Edward Burra, ...

This thrilling, visually hypnotic exhibition beautifully captures the delightful energy of the painter’s work, even if it does treat her belief in the occult with too much reverence The natural ...

Since her death, Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) has been better known as an occultist than an artist. Now, her reputation as a leading figure of British Surrealism is being restored, in an exhibition ...

Ithell Colquhoun and Edward Burra — it’s an ambitious concept to yoke two relatively obscure artists whose only apparent connection is that they were British, born a year apart at the turn of the 20th ...

Connections between the natural world, the divine and the erotic were a favorite theme for Colquhoun, who described Earth Process, 1940, as an “image from a half ...

How a Cheltenham Ladies’ College alumna became England’s answer to Salvador Dalí Alastair Sooke has been covering art for the Telegraph since 2003. He has presented more than 60 hours of TV and radio ...

Colquhoun described it as the view she saw lying in the bath – a triangle of pubic hair and two thighs sticking out of the water. In the painting these are transformed into phallic rocks jutting out ...

Burra (1905–1976) is one of the great mavericks of 20th-century art. A chronic invalid, martyred to rheumatoid arthritis and anaemia, who presented his life via his paintings as a non-stop bender ...