Andrew Lambirth

Art’s hard graft

People think you get up, are inspired, do a painting and then go off to the pub. But it’s not like that at all, protests one artist in a series of interviews

issue 12 January 2019

  • Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-Century Britain

    Michael Bird

    Lund Humphries, pp. 254

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