Martin Gayford: Take 3 Artists

Few writers get closer to the artists of our time than Martin Gayford. Confidant and conversationalist to Lucian Freud, David Hockney and Tracey Emin, he has spent decades in the studios of the greatest painters at work today. 

In this entertaining and illuminating event, Gayford takes three paintings by three of Britain’s most celebrated artists and unpicks them before our eyes, opening up the inspirations, obsessions and creative process that brought each one into being.

‘Erudite and insightful…Martin Gayford wears his knowledge lightly and manages to carry his considerable and weighty connections with ease.’
The Irish Times 

Martin will be in conversation with novelist, critic and art historian James Cahill. Cahill’s latest book The Beverly Housewife: Hockney’s Californian Muse and the World Beyond the Pool has just published.