Peter Pearson discusses the skillful painting techniques employed by Michael Dillon, Jane Willoughby and Patrick Fitzgerald, practitioners of an art form that began with cave painting

The art of painting is expected by many people to be a piece of work which is portable, usually on canvas or paper and often framed. Yet a rapid survey of art history reveals that much which is considered important and has survived consists of mural painting — a tradition that stretches back to Egyptian culture and beyond, to cave paintings