Author: Martin Gayford

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A burst of springtime joy' Daily Telegraph 'A springboard for ideas about art, space, time and light' The Times 'Lavis...

I won't read a more interesting book all year... utterly fascinating' A. N. Wilson, Sunday Times Enormously good-humoured and entertaining Hockne...

Hughie ODonoghue (b. 1953) explores themes of universal human experience, ideas of truth and the relationship between memory and identity. Often st...

First published to accompany Piano Nobile's exhibiton at Piano Nobile Kings Place, Thomas Newbolt: Drama Paintings - A Modern Baroque, this fully c...

A Times Best Art Book of 2022Reproductions of the young Lucian Freuds letters alongside insightful context and commentary reveal the foundations of...

A sumptuous single-volume edition of Phaidon's acclaimed overview of one of the greatest painters of our time Larger-than-life British artist Luci...

Lucian Freud (19222011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic M...

'An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday There was an ...

'Provoking, vital, engrossing, gorgeously produced... My art book of the year.' - Financial Times With more than 480 illustrations, this is the mos...

Brings together, for the first time, Lucian Freud's oil on copper paintings, including his lost portrait of Francis Bacon and two works that have n...

Sunday Times Art Book of the Year 2018''If you are interested in modern British art, the book is unputdownable. If you are not, read it.'' - Grey G...

Jonathan Yeo is one of Britains best-known portrait painters. Over more than a decade, he has gained an international reputation for painting some ...

In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, Martin Gayford has travelled all over the world both to see works of art and to meet arti...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWe have lost touch with nature, rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it. This will in time be over and the...

In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking and sometimes provocative new book, leading sculptor Antony Gormley, informed and energised by a lifetime o...

This book is about how we experience art, how we look at it, how we think about it. It is structured in the form of a series of conversations in so...

Sunday Times Art Book of the Year 2018'If you are interested in modern British art, the book is unputdownable. If you are not, read it.' - Grey Gow...

David Hockney is possibly the worlds most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. Here are ...

David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the past century, and arguably the country''s greatest living painter. He has spent...