THE NEW WORLD

'Was Winston Churchill any good at painting?'

Published in THE NEW WORLD magazine, issue 484, May 28, 2026, pp.30-31. 

Read how Churchill became a painter here:

https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/rosalind-ormiston-was-churchill-any-good-at-painting/?utm_campaign=e3d78db2-1665-41c4-8a42-9bf5f7965029&utm_source=1234576

At the Wallace Collection, London a new exhibition 'Winston Churchill: The Painter'  puts the wartime PM's art on show for the first time in 50 years. (Exhibition runs until 29 November, 2026).

Link to Wallace Collection

Winston Churchill: The Painter - The Wallace Collection

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Sir Winston Churchill painting in Belgium in 1946. Image: Churchill Archives Centre

The Beach at Walmer, 1938  Image: Churchill Archives Centre

THE NEW WORLD

RUTH ASAWA GUGGENHEIM, BILBAO

'Why did artist Ruth Asawa bring her work home with her?

Published in The New World online 20 May and in print 21 May, a feature on Ruth Asawa Retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.

This is the centenary year of Asawa's birth.

You can read it here

https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/rosalind-ormiston-why-did-artist-ruth-asawa-bring-her-work-home-with-her/?utm_campaign=e3d78db2-1665-41c4-8a42-9bf5f7965029&utm_source=1234584

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Artist Ruth Asawa making wire sculptures, California, United States, November 1954
image: Nat Farbman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock
artwork: © 2026 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc., courtesy David Zwirner

Ruth Asawa: Retrospective | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

THE ARBUTURIAN

MICHAELINA WAUTIER AT THE RA

'There is no mistaking the god — Bacchus, naked apart from a strategically placed leopard skin — sprawled in a wooden barrow, pushed by a bearded satyr, ...amid the tumult, a semi bare-breasted woman stands...' Is it the artist Michaelina Wautier?

Find out here before heading off to the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

In 'Michaelina Wautier at the RA'

Published 5 May 2026 online in The Arbuturian

Michaelina Wautier at the RA | The Arbuturian

On carousel: Michaelina Wautier, The Triumph of Bacchus, c. 1655–59. 

Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Picture Gallery. Photo: © KHM-Museumsverband

THE ARBUTURIAN

IN BLOOM: HOW PLANTS CHANGED OUR WORLD

Published 6 April 2026 online in The Arbuturian, a review of a major exhibition at The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 'In Bloom: How Plants Chnged Our World'.

A spectacular show.

Read it here:

In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World | The Arbuturian

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Floregium, commissioned by Mary Somerset, 1703 in bound volume with watercolour on paper. (detail)

Image copyright The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2026

THE NEW WORLD

INSIDE THE HEAD OF KANDINSKY - THE MAN WHO HEARD COLOUR

At Lille Metropole Musee d'art Moderne (LaM), Lille, France, a new exhibition explores Kandinsky's radical transformation from law professor to abstract art rebel.

Read it in The New World, latest issue 477, pp. 34-35, 2 April 2026

Link: 

https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/rosalind-ormiston-inside-the-head-of-kandinsky-the-man-who-heard-colour/?utm_campaign=e3d78db2-1665-41c4-8a42-9bf5f7965029&utm_source=1234571

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Extract from issue 477, p.35: Inside the Head of Kandinsky - the man who heard colour'. Image courtesy and copyright, The New World, 2026

Installation photograph: Kandinsky face aux Images gallery, at Lille Metropole Musee d'art moderne (LaM), Lille, France, image copyright LaM, 2026.