Art and Antiques

My Favourite Painting: Cecilia McDowall

Composer Cecilia McDowall chooses a 15th century masterpiece by Fra Angelico.

Britain's political cartoonists: Speaking truth to power for 200 years

Cartoonists have been holding political figures to account since the Georgian era. Charles Harris retraces the history of a proud tradition of British satire.

Fine Art Lighting: Making light work

Beautifully lit paintings and prints that have been expertly positioned and displayed will transform any interior, says the Hon Patrick Howard, founder of Fine Art Lighting.

My favourite painting: Greg Pickup

Conservationist Greg Pickup chooses a portrait of an early gay rights activist that is simultaneously shabby yet charismatic.

In Focus: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, the poem of broken modern civilisation that seems more apt than ever

On the 100th anniversary of its publication, Julie Harding asks why T. S. Eliot’s great poem The Waste Land, with its devastating vision of a broken modern civilisation, still resonates so strongly today.

My Favourite Painting: Christopher Woodward

Christopher Woodward of The Garden Museum picks a Lucian Freud from his organisation's upcoming exhibition.

My favourite painting: Tessy Ojo

The chief executive of The Diana Award chooses a picture that will inspire you to find 'people who will help you stand tall and not make you shrink'.

In Focus: Jeremy Houghton, the equine artist on The Queen, capturing movement and inserting the odd secret flamingo

Jane Wheatley meets Cotswolds artist Jeremy Houghton.

The extraordinary new wave of garden sculpture — and how to commission one of your own

A talking point that can inspire passions and transform a landscape, large-scale sculpture is increasingly valued by modern collectors. Anna Tyzack meets the artists bringing grand visions to life. Photographs by Joe Bailey and Mark Williamson.

In Focus: The restorer of ancient cathedrals who has turned to a very 21st century artform

Jane Wheatley meets Piotr Gargas to find out more about his art.

In Focus: The copyright lawyer who turned his hand to a 3,000-year-old artform

Jane Wheatley meets Nigel Calvert to discover how glassblowing fulfils him in a way that poring over hundreds of pages of legal fineprint could not.

My favourite painting: Frances Spalding

Art critic and historian Frances Spalding chooses an unusual work by Hans Holbein the Younger.

In Focus: The rural Surrealist bringing a touch of Dalí to the Cotswolds

Surrealism meets romance and whimsy in the work of David Blakemore, as Jane Wheatley finds out.

My Favourite Painting: Rachel Trevor-Morgan

The Queen's milliner Rachel Trevor-Morgan picks Lady Agnew of Lochnaw by John Singer Sargent.

In Focus: The botanical textile artist turning fragments of the Cotswolds into art

My Favourite Painting: Todd Longstaffe-Gowan

The landscape architect picks out a dramatic biblical image given new life by 'Il Fiammingo'.

My Favourite Painting: Ameer Kotecha

Food writer Ameer Kotecha chooses a picture whose creator clearly loves food as much as the rest of us.

My Favourite Painting: Daniel St George Chatto

The artist Daniel St George Chatto chooses perhaps the most famous sequence of paintings from the early Renaissance: Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.

Harry Parker: 'Losing my legs is one of the better things that happened to me. I’ve had a more interesting life'

The former soldier, author and double amputee Harry Parker on how The Duchess of Cornwall helped him rediscover his creativity. Interview by Paula Lester; portrait by Clara Molden.

My favourite painting: Saad Eddine Said

Saad Eddine Said of the New Art Exchange chooses a fascinating modern painting that's full of classical influences.