Lucy Davies

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Davies

In her office, with its egg-yolk-yellow floor, Lijn pulls out a box of old journals and leaves me to leaf through them. The pages are a mix of scrawled impressions, self-admonishments and fierce resolutions. "I'm determined, that's just a character trait," she says. She makes coffee and we sit at a table she designed herself, a circle of glass set on striped ceramic cones. Cones have appeared in her work since the mid-1960s.

3 weeks ago | miltonkeynes.co.uk | Lucy Davies

On the 14th of May, Councillor James Lancaster was sworn in as the Mayor of Milton Keynes. The youngest ever Mayor of our city has announced his target of significantly impacting charitable work in MK. James, who has a background in the leisure sector, has developed a strong relationship with disability charity Camphill Milton Keynes during his term as Deputy Mayor and has chosen them as his charity for the year.

2 months ago | bbc.com | Lucy Davies

'The forgotten Monet': How masterful paintings by the artist's stepdaughter are finally getting recognitionArt Institute of Chicago/ Arthur M Wood/ Collection of Alice and Rick JohnsonBlanche Hoschedé-Monet has barely been acknowledged in art history. But not only did she help her stepfather Claude, she created her own fine works – often of the same scenes as him. Haystack at Giverny, Poplars at the Water's Edge, Morning on the Seine.

2 months ago | apollo-magazine.com | Lucy Davies

You don’t so much enter a building designed by John Soane, as submit to it. The eccentric Regency architect used light and colour as others less capable in the field did mere brick and stone, and at Pitzhanger Manor, the country seat he created for himself at Ealing in 1804, they mould the interior to magical effect.

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Davies

Henri Matisse is such a pillar of 20th-century art that you may ask yourself what could possibly remain to be discovered about him. But as Matisse et Marguerite, a forthcoming exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, will illustrate, the answer is: plenty. Marguerite, who died in 1982, was the artist's eldest child, born in 1894 when he was an impoverished bohemian of 24 and in a tumultuous on-off relationship with the model Camille Joblaud.