Of the mysterious moment when paint leaves the brush and becomes painting, he says: “The crucial thing for a painter is getting to the point where he can maintain some sort of pictorial balance ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “I was walking up the King’s Road in London around six o’clock in the morning on a summer’s day ...

And the Japanese vehicle maker is testing it out on some of its Leaf battery-electric vehicles Europe, no less. Nissan says its trying out what's called a "superhydrophobic and oleophobic" paint ...