Dealers' Diary

Like most enduring events, the Bath Decorative Antiques Fair boasts a formula both familiar and distinctive which has been tempered by gradual changes.

With several months to go before the next edition of The Art & Antiques Fair Olympia opens, fair director Mary Claire Boyd says that 2018’s event will feature a different format from past years and anticipates around 30,000 visitors to attend the revamped event.

Look around at any edition of the Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair and there will be dealers hastily rehanging and restocking empty spaces on their stands.

Silver dealer Alastair Dickenson had a blast from the past when he flicked through the pages of ATG recently.

Janice Kehoe of Solo Antiques will next stand at Antiques Dealers Fair Limited’s (ADFL) Art Antiques Cheshire event (February 23-25). She specialises in Art Nouveau and Art Deco sculpture and glass as well as Arts & Crafts.

Vernacular texts from the Middle Ages might be rarer than their Latin equivalents but their accounts of medieval society and history can offer modern readers a clearer window to the past.

Tony Haynes of Haynes Fine Art is preparing to show a room-set from the collection of Vivien Leigh at his London gallery next month – but not to sell it.

Their backgrounds might have made them strange bedfellows: Edgar Degas (1834-1917), the lawyer turned publicity-shy painter and printmaker, and Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the sculptor from a working-class background who achieved fame with his large, often controversial works.

In our series looking through the keyhole of ‘bricks and mortar’ shops, ATG talks to Brenda Nassarian of English and French decorative interiors business Arundel Eccentrics. When and why did you open the shop?

Milliner Victoria Grant is known for her high-society hats, worn by the likes of Kate Moss, Beyoncé and Carla Delevigne. But in an exhibition of her works at Old Master dealer Philip Mould’s gallery, society faces are on, not under, the hats.

Old Master specialist Derek Johns became a director of Sotheby’s in 1968 and head of its Old Master paintings department in 1974. He became an independent art dealer in 1981. He now deals from Bury Street after many years on Duke Street.

Art Antiques Cheshire, the annual fair at The Mere Golf Resort & Spa, is now in its seventh year.

Galloway Antiques Fairs returns for its second edition at the Midhurst stately home Cowdray House this year.

Collect 2018 is a fair offering a wealth of contemporary craft, but this year it also takes a look back to leading craftspeople of the 20th century.

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham described making her late work, a colourful and energetic collection, as ‘letting rip’.

The year is well under way for Penman Fairs as it gears up for The Chester Antiques Fair.

Exhibition on Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell comes as interest and stock are both healthy

The Japanese Legacy Symposium’s Samurai Armor Fair debuts this month.

A trio of literary discoveries star at Sim Fine Art’s upcoming exhibition.

Dealer, art adviser and former auctioneer Simon Wingett is heading a project to create a new Welsh tourism centre including a sculpture park and gallery.