Dickon Hall recalls the career of fiercely-independent artist Nevill Johnson, the subject of a major retrospective at the Ava Gallery, Co Down

In 1934 Nevill Johnson arrived in Belfast almost by accident. A reluctant businessman from a prosperous English industrial family, Johnson had tried to persuade his father to allow him to train as an artist, but this received short shrift
Róisín Kennedy discusses Carey Clarke’s Portrait of My Daughter, Michelle, the winner of the Ireland-US Council Portrait Prize at the 178th RHA Annual Exhibition
Riann Coulter finds a personal compendium collated with daring and vigour, in Basil Blackshaw’s work