AWARD-winning North Yorkshire-based artist Julia Burns is best known locally for her charming and affordable animal potato prints, which are fast becoming collectors’ items. But her passion for ...

Zoo Knoxville's resident artists have feathers and hooves and long, winding trunks. Some are dedicated to their craft. Many have individualized, sometimes temperamental, approaches to the creation of ...

Some might argue that a Jackson Pollock painting looks like something a preschool kid could do, given a canvas and some paint. But abstract art is definitely distinct from the random splatters of a ...

New radiometric dating identifies the oldest known figurative drawing—not a stenciled outline of a hand or an abstract design, but an actual attempt to depict a real object in an image. As far as we ...

A few animals are prodigious producers of ‘art’, says Jason G Goldman. Why do they do it? Do they enjoy the creative process? And is their work any good? At first glance, the Vogelkop Gardener ...

Seeing the work of local artists mature over the years is one of the great pleasures of keeping a close eye on the area art scene. As many artists know, it often takes years to develop a body of work ...

A prehistoric artist’s realistic portrayal of a wild pig, warts and all, might just be the oldest known example of a painting that depicts the animal world. Four years ago, scientists came upon the ...

BENGALURU: As you enter Sublime Galleria, a painting of a human face welcomes you, but the rest of the paintings at the ‘Animal Factory’ exhibition are of animals. Martial Robin, a portraitist from ...