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Hello, I’m thrilled to be the guest editor of Scoop’s art issue. My earliest memories are of drawing. Usually queens and ladies in big fancy dresses. I drew on cardboard with a blue Biro pen, and all the time I was telling myself stories about who th

Amrita’s parents – Marie Antoinette Gottesman-Baktay, a Hungarian pianist, and Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, an Indian nobleman – met in 1910 in Lahore. They fell in love, married and, in 1913, their first child, Amrita, was born in Budapest, Hungary. The Sh

Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Eleanor (Ellie) and I’m eight. My favourite colour is all the shades of blue! I love to read about Greek mythology. Where do you live? Columbia, Missouri. We live in a large house in the woods, in the mi

DEAR READING DOCTOR, Just before the holidays started, our class went on a school trip to an art gallery. We saw some fancy-looking paintings of people and houses and stuff like that, but my favourite ones were the paintings of animals. There were

BY AMBER LEE DODD Scholastic £6.99 REVIEW by Liza, age fourteen Amelia, the protagonist in Lightning Chase Me Home, is an intricately crafted character who shatters stigma about children with learning difficulties and empowers readers through

This August, in an old fire engine workshop by the river in the middle of London, the Mega Maker Lab opens its doors. What was a forgotten, empty space becomes – for one month – a playful interactive space for families to have fun with different maki

We have chosen a fabulous selection of books about art that will engage, inspire and help you to spend more time enjoying art. As the first Children’s Laureate, Quentin Blake created an original exhibition in the National Gallery, London for which

Cubism was a revolutionary new way of painting invented around 1907 by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The aim was to bring different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fr

Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Linda and I’m twelve. Where do you live? Florence, Italy, in a large apartment overlooking Il Poggio, in Piazzale Michelangelo. What is your family like? My mom is a clothes designer and my dad has his