Louise Middleton realises her dream of wild camping on a 65 acre site on the North Devon coast, ‘That perfect solar arc where the sun sets and hits the sea is what people seek.’
Month: February 2020
The Clay Loft
‘Once you get clay beneath your fingernails, it’s there for life,’ warns Tom Knowles-Jackson, founder of an open access ceramics studio, The Clay Loft.
Van Gogh Iris paintings
We are all familiar with Van Gogh’s sunflowers, but much less is known about his series of iris paintings. They were painted in the hospital garden at Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum near Provence in 1890, the year before he died. He called painting ‘the lightening conductor for my illness,’ because he felt that he could keep himself from going insane by continuing to paint.
Henrietta, by Vanessa Bell
Read this short blog exploring the life of Henrietta, grandaughter of Vanessa Bell. She lived a bohemian and somewhat tragic life and remembers being painted by her grandmother with extraordinary detail.