Claudia Barberi Childs

Story Painters, Picture Writers A new show in Oxford highlights British figurative artists.   Kate Montgomery Stilte/Silence  2025 The painter and writer Julian Bell is heading up an exciting New Year’s show in Oxford of recent work by a half-dozen British figurative artists exploring the interfaces between image-making and language. Story Painters, Picture Writers, at St John’s College’s Kendrew Barn Gallery, borrows its title from Aubrey Beardsley’s 1894 polemic against the narrative...