Like all interesting people, Ithell Colquhoun was a mass of contradictions. She was obsessed with sex but uninterested in romantic relationships.

It was in 1942 that the loose group of British artists we now call the Neo-Romantics was first identified.

In St Margaret's Church Westminster, on the west wall, is a memorial tablet to Patrick Colquhoun, founder of the Thames Police. At the top is a carved draped curtain with a bee hive, books, the prow ...

The American artist turns 19th-century paintings of women into celebrations of friends, family and lovers – with plenty of rhinestones. The British surrealist Ithell Colquhoun combined magic and ...