Spotting and acquiring quality, original art from up and coming artists can mean endless hours spent in art galleries – or just a few minutes in front of your computer screen. The website ArtGallery.co.uk has been set up to make the very best of original art accessible to everyone with an internet connection.

For the last ten years, the Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) have  been celebrating and promoting the work of older people through their  prestigious Over 60s Art Awards competition, which offers amateur artists nationwide the chance to exhibit their work at the Bankside Gallery in London - near the Tate Modern. And this year journalist and broadcaster Joan Bakewell will be acting as a judge for the competition and also presenting the prizes.

A 69-year-old Briton has won second place in the prestigious international "Lilly Oncology on Canvas: Expressions of a Cancer Journey" international art competition. She received her award from HRH The Duke of Gloucester at the Royal College of Art.

The father of modern art died one hundred years ago this October, and the town where he was born is celebrating his genius. Albeit belatedly.

For a long time Paul Cezanne was far from being Aix-en-Provence’s favourite son. “Aix has been very slow to recognise his achievements,” said my ‘Cezanne Trail‘ guide Yannick, as we stood in front of the statue only recently erected in the painter’s honour. 

In the first of two articles, Philip Glynn, attacks a popular myth.