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Under the Influence: John Deakin and the Lure of Soho is at The Photographers' Gallery, Ramillies Street, W1F, April 11 until July 13. Details: thephotographersgallery.org.uk, 0207 087 9300 ...
If the name doesn’t ring any bells, it’s likely you’ve seen Deakin’s work. There was scarcely any artist or whisky-guzzling writer in 1950s and 1960s London whose portrait he didn’t take. Dylan Thomas ...
Dylan Thomas and artist Augustus John first met in the mid-1930s at the Fitzroy Tavern in London Poet and writer Dylan Thomas is to be "reunited" with his wife in his hometown. A portrait of the ...
A portrait of a 23-year-old . Dylan Thomas by his friend and fellow Welshman Augustus John has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery.. Thomas’s innocent-looking features, with tousled ...
Born in 1914, Dylan Thomas was an unruly and undisciplined child who was interested only in English at school and was determined from childhood to become a poet. Little did he know that he would ...
A work by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas will be heard for the first time in more than 70 years at an event this week. Actor Celyn Jones, who played Thomas in the film Set Fire To Our Stars, will read ...
McCartney once wrote: "I am sure that the main influence on both [Bob] Dylan and John [Lennon] was Dylan Thomas. That’s why Bob’s not Bob Zimmerman – his real name.