I spent all of last year drawing London-looking, exploring, finding new bits and revisiting, considering, reassessing and re-evaluating familiar places I thought I knew well. Wandering and drawing made me notice and think afresh

According to the great 19th-century draughtsman Jean-Auguste Ingres, "Drawing is the probity of art." This aphorism has been put to the test recently by the noise surrounding the graphic work of Lucian Freud and Tracey E

The Photo League was a New York cooperative organisation founded in 1936 as an offshoot of the Workers' Film and Photo League. It was disbanded in 1951 after being included on the Attorney General's list of subversive organisation

After leaving art school, Matthew specialised in drawing nudes, executing compelling life-size studies of young contemporaries. When he subsequently confined himself to carrying out portrait commissions, the careerist approach pro