Laura Gascoigne

The mediums who pioneered abstract art

A new exhibition at the Drawing Room is opening up the canon to the visionary work of assorted cranks, crackpots and old dowagers

Eat your heart out, William Morris: ‘Abstracted Flowers’, date unknown, by Madge Gill. Credit: London Borough of Newham

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