Poet Sean O’Brien’s latest poetry collection has just been published by Pan Macmillan, featuring a painting by Stephen Todd on its cover.

If a work speaks to you, though you can’t explain how; if you can imagine it in your space and living beside it then this, in itself, is a key way to value that artwork.

Check out new curation Evergreen, featuring great gifts for nature lovers this Christmas – walkers, gardeners, those who love to give flowers – or for any time.

Paintings new to the gallery this week. All work available to buy with an interest free Art loan (UK residents) – select OwnArt at the payment page.

London Paint Club has selected 20 artists, including 4 New Blood artists, to display their work in a pop-up show in Central London.

Nicola Wiltshire’s solo show presented by Paul Smith goes on display today, with an opening viewing, Friday 25th, that you’re welcome to attend.

Pigments – eroding, sedimenting, tectonic – trace the artist’s paintings, in meandering, looping mosaics, or swathes like layers of water. Here the experience of looking is both sensuous and deconstructed: your gaze is reflected back at you.

Paint can always be, is always applied anew. The original movement of Abstract Expressionism sought unprecedented ways of creating the substance of feeling.

Skies are so eminently paintable: always offering new forms, endlessly surprising, abstract and tactile in equal measure.

Drawing can be a startling intimate medium, with the exquisite effort clear to see.