Stanley Spencer: Rooted in an English landscape Mark Hudson sees the ordinary garden afresh at a new exhibition of Stanley Spencer’s paintings By Mark Hudson 10 July 2011 • 7:00am ...

Stanley Spencer saw the common English garden in a warm and sensuous light that even war could not destroy. ... but of making his gardens and landscapes, as people, ...

A new exhibition at the Stanley Spencer Gallery brings together the artist's outdoor paintings for a lesson in putting together garden features Madonna Lilies, Cookham lent by Leeds Art Fund to ...

Stanley Spencer painted his first oil painting when ... Spencer came to depend on the sale of uncontroversial landscapes for income, and often expressed resentment about having to do so.

It was here that British artist Stanley Spencer was born in 1891 ... domestic scenes, nudes and landscapes that span five decades of the artist's career, starting with the 1914 self portrait.

An unpublished sketchbook by the artist Stanley Spencer, containing his earliest known drawings and a short story, is to go on display in West Yorkshire.

Experts say landscapes by Spencer - like the one stolen (pictured) from Cookham in Berkshire - could sell for up to £1 million at auction.

The work of British artist Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) has undergone a resurgence of interest in the art world recently. Long viewed by some as a provincial joke, several artists and critics now ...

THE EARLIEST known sketches by one of Britain's greatest painters, Stanley Spencer, have been discovered by a Yorkshire curator ahead of a major exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield.

An unpublished sketchbook by the artist Stanley Spencer, containing his earliest known drawings and a short story, is to go on display in West Yorkshire.

Other sketches include this drawing of the landscape near Spencer's home town in Berkshire John Spencer, Stanley Spencer's grandson, said it was "a privilege" to work with the gallery on "this ...