Martin Gayford
Writer
Martin Gayford is a prominent British art critic, historian, and author known for his acclaimed books on artists like Van Gogh, Constable, and Lucian Freud, often focusing on artists' lives and working methods, with a career spanning major publications like The Spectator (as art critic) and Bloomberg News, and collaborations with David Hockney on works such as A History of Pictures. He studied philosophy at Cambridge and art history at the Courtauld Institute, and is known for deep dives into artistic processes, exemplified by his experience sitting for Freud for Man with a Blue Scarf.
