This portrait is quite lovely. No idea who the subject or artist is. The whole mystery kind of adds to the appeal of the work as it does with all of these pieces.

This abstract work is fabulous. The 'white' of the title is anything but. I love the shifting translucence.

There's a lovely simplicity to this scene of a group of bathers. Nice economical brushwork.

Always been a fain of paintings of people doing paintings. Meta. I didn't know St. Luke was a dauber.

Coming from Essex as I do, I like this simple landscape of The Smack at Canvey. There's a real sense of the low bleak minimalism of the Thames vista communicated by the artist.

A wonderfully minimal abstract here, but charming with it. I like the textures in that middle section.

This mixed media installation with all of its right angles and metallic hues and negative space has a real urban industrial feel. But the interplay of light and depth gives it a kind of warmth.

This illustrative work showing a (then) contemporary nurse working 'in the shadow' of another figure (who, having a lamp, we assume is Florence Nightingale) has a nice feel. bearing in mind the current global crisis, it's screaming for an update.

I've actually chosen this piece less for the original painting, but more for how it looks covered in strips of masking tape.

There's something about the greys and the eyes in this portrait that draws one in. A real weight and depth. Love to know who this dude was.

This painting of a boxer is (I think) from an old fairground booth. There's a real charm to it.

This picture of a woman in a nightclub has a real sense of joy about it, but that may be the lockdown talking.

This painting of Harold Wilson looks more like it's a portrait of Mike Yarwood doing Harold Wilson. That is a reference which will miss a fair few of you. Google him.

I have no idea what is going on here but I love it. Skinny mad eyed horse busking.

The Duke versus pointillism. I think on balance, The Duke wins.

This abstract landscape has a Turner-esque feel. I love the tonal shifts.

This choppy, energetic figure painting is marvellous. Look at the brush strokes in the lighter areas. That dark block of colour at the top is really imposing.

Brushwork here. Nice. You can really see the guy. Get a sense of him.

I lived in London for six years. This painting reminds me of that time living in a city. The alluring glow of an all night petrol station.

This is an almost cliched image of Manhattan from under the Brooklyn Bridge. And it's kinda clunky. But this is a painting I'd really like to know the story of.

Biddy Stonham was a legendary Hastings character, and well known as 'The Tub Man'.

I love this painting, the blue of the pan and background, and the likelihood that the artist used their bare fingertips to apply the pigment. Wonder what's cooking.

I remain drawn to work which looks incomplete, but as an artist am unsure when a piece is finished. You stop when you stop, and I think this artist stopped at a perfect moment.

I like tanks.

Hard to look at, but the ghostly visceral quality of this piece is really compelling. reminds me of Louise Bourgeois.

When I drive to Dundee to University, I go through St Andrews, I see this view daily. It's beautifully evocative.

A quirky, graphic print work here. Diagramatic elements, screened photographs and solid tones give it a brisk appeal.

The space, light and colour here are marvellous. The casual figures just lounging in the distance are endearing.

Coffee John looks like quite the chap. Smoking his pipe and hanging in front of his emporium.

This portrait of Fukuzawa Yukichi in formal Japanese dress is absolutely stunning. The detail and background tones are fantastic.

So. Many. Questions. Lovely painting, mind.

A wonderful representation of evening light in this work.

Great use of line and tone in this work. The cross hatching in the rock is marvellous contrasted with the areas of painted texture. I like the confluence of geometry and geology.

There's something I like about the damage done to this work. The brutality of the four diagonals. Strangely compelling.

This cut open cadaver, presumably being studied by surgical students is strangely beautiful.

The collage-like layout of this work is great. The sense that the lower horizontal and vertical central element fit together gets you looking at the work in a different way, it's like the artist is deliberately wrong footing the viewer.

I like the hand holding the book. Also the formally mannered look that is so common in portraiture of this era.

I was in a production at the Theatre Royal in Bath. Never saw this painting sadly. He looks quite the turn.

Again, the mystery and questions which surround this beautiful portrait are why I chose it initially, but the more you look, the lovelier it gets.

Sarah Evans Davies looks quite a no nonsense woman. Mayor of Welshpool in the late 1920s. Strong.

This equestrian number makes me laugh, because there's little or no sense of movement conveyed. It looks for all the world like two horses and riders relaxing on the top of a hedge.

The colours here. Simple but appealing.

I have always liked nudes which like this, simply look at the topography of the human form. so much going on, and the green swirl in the background, echoed tonally in the skin and in the curves of the torso.

I really dig the stark geometry of the triangular motif contrasted with the organic forms of the (three) flowers.

Doig, Hockney, Sidney Nolan... I'm put in mind of so many artists by this beautiful little garden set piece. A moment in someone's day paused. Great warmth and space and despite the lack of a figure, real presence.

There's a comic strip vibe to this late 1930s portrait of Mayor Lipson. Looks like he could be driving a tank in The Victor.

Fantastically vibrant industrial landscape work here. The scarab aquamarines of the lower right area tessellated by the ochre rooftops dominated by the russet and grey chimneystacks. it's really beautiful.

This is one of my favourites of this selection. The turquoise and grey Warhol-esque screen print style over looping script. A perfect evocation of urban claustrophobia.

So it says oil on canvas, but is the canvas sewn? I really like the tonal minimalism and texture of what really looks like stitching.

I love these dogs wiring into poor old Actaeon.

The compression of detail around the face, contrasted with the looser, lighter style for her clothing and background make this for me.

Seems quite chirpy for a wounded fella. Great character work.

The contrast here, and tones in the paper. I like how close he is holding the paper to his face.

Another lovely bit of 'folk art' from this old boxing booth. Check out the formally dressed ringside patrons.

Lovely carved stone head.

Really simple beautiful bit of portraiture. The brushwork and mark making have an alluring looseness.

The Penrose Almshouses in Barnstaple are still a going concern.

I kind of dig that there was a lightship with 'Sunk' written on it in big letters. This is a beautifully messy bit of work. Looks like it was painted during a storm.

Here is, apparently, a painting of Keren Woodward from Bananarama dressed as the Queen in the 1950s.

This marvellous geometric painting of an office window has more than a whiff of Richard Hamilton about it. The dull (interior) is a brilliant focal point, set off by stark surrounding parallels and diagonals.

This piece is absolutely marvellous. Funny, engaging, complex and minimal. I'd really love to see it in real life.