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The Stillness She Made: Carrington’s Farm at Watendlath
This week I tell the story of a favourite painting, discover more Jane Gardam and love Good-bye Mr Chips.
Feb 5
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What Survives by Chance
Faith Jaques and the unseen labour of illustration; Jane Gardam's 'Crusoe's Daughter' and new paintings from the winter hedgerow
Jan 22
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Following Faint Traces
On researching overlooked women artists, missed threads, and learning to listen differently
Jan 8
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The Artist Behind Narnia: Pauline Baynes
From winter classrooms to magical worlds, rediscovering the artist who opened the wardrobe to Narnia and A Giant under the Snow
Dec 11, 2025
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Claimed by the Sea: Joan Eardley and Catterline
On choosing your landscape rather than inheriting it
Nov 28, 2025
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A Garden in Winter
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The Artist Behind Narnia: Pauline Baynes
Dec 11, 2025
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The Quiet Moon
Jan 2, 2025
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Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering Heights
Oct 9, 2025
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Hefted to the Land: the painter Sheila Fell (1931 - 1979)
A landscape of memory and loss, November comfort listening and returning to Sue Gee
Nov 13, 2025
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Windows on the North
From a rain-soaked cottage in the Peaks to Winifred Nicholson’s Banks Head, with some bookish joys along the way.
Oct 30, 2025
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Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering Heights
Edna Clarke Hall (1879 -1979) persistence and the joy of making
Oct 9, 2025
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The Vicar's Wife
Mildred Elsi Eldridge (1909 - 1991), the artist who chose quietness and a forgotten Welsh classic
Sep 25, 2025
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The Green Woman
From her Walking Madonna to The Green Man: Elisabeth Frink’s (1930 - 1993) art of endurance and hope.
Sep 11, 2025
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How one thing leads to another
From Eve Garnett to "Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose" and on to Barbara Comyn's "Sisters by a River"
Aug 28, 2025
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Something to do
Finding Shirley Hughes (1927 - 2022) in my favourite Young Puffin
Aug 14, 2025
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The Clock Strikes Thirteen
"Tom's Midnight Garden," the illustrator Susan Einzig and the nature of memory
Jul 31, 2025
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The Forgotten Art of Childhood
Rediscovering the illustrations of Margery Gill and a cautionary tale
Jul 10, 2025
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