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12 works that you’ll find searching the number 12, all in honour of the date 12/12/12.

Wouldn’t it be cool if dictionaries kindly provided a visual representation for their words! A Pictionary perhaps. Not to be confused with the game.  

Well, after studying the list of ‘new words’ to be included in the latest version of the Collins Online Dictionary, I felt inspired to pick out a few favourites and crudely try to create their subsequent pictorials for said potential book. Direct interpretation from their given meanings cannot be guaranteed.

Ever wondered what the highest amount of money someone has paid for an artwork at auction is and what it was they bought? Well wonder no more because here is a list of the top 10 most expensive works ever sold.

Venice - the end of August and the feathers are flying! As part of the Bienniale Art and Architecture expo, Swiss artist Julian Charriere decided to airbrush the old grey inhabitants of St. Marks Square - the world's most filmed, photographed and conspiciously indulged pidgeons and they're now preening in glorious technicolour to the delight of many but to the dismay of animal rights campaigners who are condeming the action as cruel. Au contraire says M.

As Santa faces the enviable task of visiting every house on the globe in the space of a few hours, I began wondering what might be top of an Artist’s Christmas list.

Most of you have the requisite tools of the trade, so what if you could ask our rotund rouge friend of Lapland for something slightly more fantastic?

Where algorithms might be a scientific route to creating art, what if you were able to perceive everyday objects, sounds and images differently?

The inspiration behind all invention, be it mechanical or artistic is largely shrouded in the mystery of individual mindset.

Arguably, any human creation is the manifestation of certain conditions. For a piece of music it might be the end of a relationship. For a painter it might be the scene out of a window.

Imagine those conditions were implanted by a computer code? An algorithm.

The recent BBC programme 'Fake or Fortune?' with journalist Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould reminded us that people have been buying original art, and in this case a disputed Claude Monet, without seeing the work in person for many years, and well before the internet made it a lot easier.