Why I’m raising a glass to the Birmingham surrealists | Adrian Chiles

Going to my first ever art lecture opened my eyes to my home town’s pioneering painters. Now I’m their No 1 fanI went to a lecture on art history the other night. I’m 52 next week and it was the first such thing I’d ever attended. I was asked along, saw no harm in it, and there I was.Quite appropriately for someone sitting in a lecture theatre for the first time in 30 years, it was about surrealism. I felt a wave of serenity breaking over me. Why had I never thought of do