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From Art – Zanzibar

In 1992 this picture won the BP Portrait Award, an annual prize that is still given at the National Portrait Gallery. It is by Lucy Willis who, at the time, was teaching Art to prisoners in Shepton Mallet jail and it depicts one of her classes. She looks through the other end of the telescope… Continue reading From Art – Zanzibar

Have You Read…..?

I don’t know which is the most trouble, having the hall and stairs painted or having new bookcases in the study. Hanging pictures and putting back books take ages but in both cases it’s an opportunity to re-arrange. More than a year ago, putting books back in the study, I came across a paperback that… Continue reading Have You Read…..?

Low Life

Yesterday’s post was largely about Eric Ravilious. Today it is about, inter alia, his son, James.

War Artists

Francis Plowden comments that a picture of HMS Glorious (see Sea Eagles and Hurricanes) can be seen at the Dulwich Picture Gallery until the end of this month.

An Unreliable Cure

Today is the first thoroughly wet one. An excellent opportunity to visit the Leprosy Museum.

Someone Else’s Granny

Sandwiched between E C Bentley and William Boyd is the only novel I have by Caroline Blackwood,

This Post is Potty

I was taught pottery (the posh word is ceramics now) at school by Gordon Baldwin and over the years have seen his work in galleries, at The Ashmolean Museum and The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich.