Dealers' Diary

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham described making her late work, a colourful and energetic collection, as ‘letting rip’.

Milliner Victoria Grant is known for her high-society hats, worn by the likes of Kate Moss, Beyoncé and Carla Delevigne. But in an exhibition of her works at Old Master dealer Philip Mould’s gallery, society faces are on, not under, the hats.

Galloway Antiques Fairs returns for its second edition at the Midhurst stately home Cowdray House this year.

Collect 2018 is a fair offering a wealth of contemporary craft, but this year it also takes a look back to leading craftspeople of the 20th century.

Their backgrounds might have made them strange bedfellows: Edgar Degas (1834-1917), the lawyer turned publicity-shy painter and printmaker, and Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the sculptor from a working-class background who achieved fame with his large, often controversial works.

Art Antiques Cheshire, the annual fair at The Mere Golf Resort & Spa, is now in its seventh year.

In our series looking through the keyhole of ‘bricks and mortar’ shops, ATG talks to Brenda Nassarian of English and French decorative interiors business Arundel Eccentrics. When and why did you open the shop?

Old Master specialist Derek Johns became a director of Sotheby’s in 1968 and head of its Old Master paintings department in 1974. He became an independent art dealer in 1981. He now deals from Bury Street after many years on Duke Street.

A trio of literary discoveries star at Sim Fine Art’s upcoming exhibition.

The Japanese Legacy Symposium’s Samurai Armor Fair debuts this month.

Lloyd Rust has run South East Antiques for 10 years. It is based in a 2500sq ft warehouse and trades mainly from eBay. He is also a heavy metal DJ and compere at the metal festival Bloodstock in his spare time. For the past 10 years he has also hosted a charity music festival in Chelmsford Essex.

Dealer, art adviser and former auctioneer Simon Wingett is heading a project to create a new Welsh tourism centre including a sculpture park and gallery.

The year is well under way for Penman Fairs as it gears up for The Chester Antiques Fair.

Exhibition on Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell comes as interest and stock are both healthy

A fragment of the flag believed to have flown from HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar came to national attention this month when it was knocked down for £240,000 at Sotheby’s.

Darnley Fine Art in west London specialises in paintings from the 16th-20th centuries and is a specialist in 19th century Orientalist painting of the Middle East and prints by David Roberts. The Milner Street gallery’s Adrian Pett weighs in on shifting trends – and ales.

John Mitchell Fine Art’s 17th 'Peaks & Glaciers' exhibition takes place at its Mayfair space until April 19.

Next up for Galloway Fairs is the 23rd fair at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, from February 16-18.

The next Petersfield Antiques Fair runs from February 2-4 hosting 39 dealers at the market town’s Festival Hall.

Familiarity with the works on paper market means getting to grips with the technical processes behind drawing, painting and printing and learning the requisite vocabulary.