Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has joined the art world in paying tribute to David Hockney, one of the UK's most important and influential artists, who has died at the age of 88.

Sir Keir said he was "saddened" to hear of the death of "one of Britain's most celebrated artists".

Alex Farquharson, director of the Tate Britain gallery, described Hockney as an "immensely important figure" and "an endlessly inventive artist, with a unique vision of the world".

Over his seven-decade career, Hockney was famous for his vibrant and innovative artworks, including landscapes of his native Yorkshire, sun-drenched paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools, and iPad portraits of his friends and family.

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
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Our artist, Linda Pattrick, together with her sister, Sue Rainsford, are holding an exciting new exhibition inspired by their walks in Norfolk.

The Handa Gallery, Wells Maltings,
Wells-Next-The-Sea
Norfolk
Exhibition open daily from 11am to 4pm
Saturday 2nd - Monday 4th May 2026
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www.wellsmaltings.org.uk

Concrete Cube Gallery welcomes Irene Bell to our group of artists.

Irene is a Glasgow-based ceramic artist with over 40 years of experience. She recently retired from her role as Head of Product Design at the Glasgow School of Art to dedicate herself entirely to her artistic practice.

Her career includes exhibitions across Britain and internationally, collaborations with artists, designers, and architects on various commissions and installations, and her work is held in several collections.

Irene creates dynamic artworks that explore the relationship between edge and plane. Her current practice involves slabs of clay forming small sculptural compositions that evoke architectural forms from an aerial view or intimate still life. She describes her approach as “drawing with edges,” emphasising the placement of edge, plane, and form, and the tensions among them. She works with raw, unglazed surfaces, using texture and shadow to create tonal variation in her pieces.

Concrete Cube Gallery welcomes Méabh Warburton to our group of artists.

Méabh is a textile artist who lives in deepest, rural France creating small scale, finely woven tapestries using cotton threads.
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Walking the tracks and fields around her home, the ever changing landscape is noted and enjoyed. The dayglo lichen and moss on branches and stones, a small clump of wild narcissi, honeysuckle flowering in the woods, all accompanied by a changing sonic landscape, the small field birds being joined by cuckoos, nightingales, hoopoes and golden orioles.
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Méabh is conscious of following in the footsteps of those who have gone before. Pacing, tracing and mapping this small, intimately known patch of the earth.
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There are parallels with the technique of tapestry, the repetition, the rhythm, the slow patient progress. It anchors, slows time, concentrates.
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Her tapestries are landscapes.

Art Basel has long been considered the largest and most prestigious fair of the contemporary and modern art market. In their American art fair in Miami Beach, leading galleries from five continents show significant works by masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as the new generation of emerging stars.

Miami Beach Convention Center
1901 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33139  
5 – 7 December, 2025

As part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, our artists Linda Green, Marion Barron together with Irene Bell, are holding a joint exhibition celebrating ceramics, textiles and painting.The show is free, on now and running until the 7 August 2025.

Bell, Green, Barron
Thomson’s Tower, Dr. Neil’s Garden,
5 Old Church Lane, Duddingston
Edinburgh EH15 3PX  
Exhibition is open daily from 11am to 5.30 pm
25 July - 7 August 2025

Our artist, Mike Howlett has recently completed a successful joint photographic exhibition at the 142 Gallery in Felixstowe, Suffolk entitled ‘Home and Away’.
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Together with Jon Downs, they presented photographic images from grand landscapes to candid street scenes and intriguing abstracts. The fine art exhibition offered a compelling glimpse into sometimes technically tricky but visually rewarding interpretations of the world around them.

Our artist Marion Barron together with five other artists, Irene Campbell, Soosan Danesh, Mary McKay, Carole Millar and John Nowak
all from the Edinburgh College of Art, are holding an exciting new exhibition, Solo 6 2025, at the Dundas St Gallery, Edinburgh.

The Dundas Gallery
6 Dundas Street
Edinburgh EH3 6HZ
Exhibition opens daily from 11.00am to 5pm
25 - 30 April 2025.
The exhibition closes at 2.30pm on the final day

The exhibition, which ran from 1 - 6 April, was held at the Anteros Arts Foundation in Norwich. Attended by many of her network of friends, family and clientele, it provided her with exposure to a brand new audience further afield.

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Ian has been invited as guest of honour for the 2025 art exhibition alongside other talented artists from many disciplines including painters, sculptors and photographers. The exhibition runs from 10 July to 20 August in Château de Lacapelle-Marival
Rue du Château 46120 LACAPELLE-MARIVAL in Occitane, France.

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