Marina Vaizey read history at Harvard and Cambridge and has been has been an art critic for over fifty years for among other publications four years for The Financial Times,eighteen years for The Sunday Times and is a regular contributor to theartsdesk.com and the Burlington. She was a member of the Arts Council, the Crafts Council, specialist committees for the Council for National Academic Awards, a trustee of SouthBankCentre, the Imperial War Museum, National Museums Liverpool, the National Army Museum, and the Geffrye Museum, and on the boards of Camberwell College of Art and Corsham Academy. . She has curated several exhibitions - fine arts, photography and applied arts and her books include The Artist as Photographer, Great Women Collectors and Art: The Critics Choice. She edited the Art Quarterly and The Review for TheArtFund. Marina has lectured world wide and led more than 50 trips abroad to galleries and museums. She chaired the Friends of the Victoria and Albert, and is currently a trustee of The Musical Brain, and Contemporary Applied Arts.