Season's Greetings and a Card
Light & Love - the story of Julia Margaret Cameron and Mary Hillier
Enchanted Living - the Pre-Raphaelite Edition
The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy Exhibition
Beyond the Brotherhood Catalogue
Allan Ramsay - Jacobite or Royalist?
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
To the Moon - Endymion and a different kind of Apollo
Great Balls of Fire - anniversary of an historic artwork
Victoria and Albert - newly weds in portrait
The Golden Age of Book Covers
William James Neatby - an introduction
Elizabeth I’s Sieve Portrait - allegory and meaning.
John Atkinson Grimshaw - painter of moonlight.
Remembering Arthur Hughes, the ‘quiet’ Pre-Raphaelite.
Farringford House restored - the poet Tennyson’s family home.
Wanderer in the Storm - a favourite Gothic painting.
Celebrating Midsummer - in painting and verse.
Sir Henry Raeburn - painter of ‘The Skating Minister.’
Tudors by Holbein - the treacherous court of Henry VIII.
All together now! Queen Victoria’s right royal family gathering.
All of a sudden … it’s Autumn.
Happy Birthday - Tudor Queen Elizabeth - A portrait in the making.
Victoria’s Embankment - a story of progress in 19th century art.
Historical Portraits ‘Um, made me a bit shifty-looking, haven’t you?’
Tower of London - also comes with ships.
The Blind Girl, by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais.
Trafalgar Square from cross to column, a change of place & mood.
Autumn Extracts - paintings and stories combined.
Remembering Inigo Jones - England’s Pioneering Architect.
My Favourite ‘Julia Margarets’ - Pre-Raphaelite photography.
Scarlet Poppy Fair - a flower with a history.
My Favourite Mucha - images from the Belle Epoque.
Myths, Magic and Mothering Sunday (UK).
Time - Regulator or Commander? A history.
A Moment in Time. The Jacobite march south into England.
Painted Ladies and Melancholic Poets. The problem with old portraits.
Portrayals of Mary Tudor, Princess and Queen of England.
Elizabeth Siddal - a reminder of why we remember.
Hurrah for matt covers! And paperbacks without curl.
Isabella .. and the Pot of Basil.
Remembering Holbein - an indefinite ending.
Halloween and All Souls - Holistic or Hysterical?
New Cover for The Arrow Chest.
Various Observations on a Jolly Good Week.
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.
The world upside down. The Masquerade.
Death and the Maiden.
Avant garde? - No, actually that’s Pollock’s.
What does the mask reveal?
Apollo and the Muses of Parnassus.
Elizabeth Siddal Remembered.
Snap! Which is the older of these two remarkably similar paintings?
A Christmas Message (and why I didn’t just use a photo).
Vox Populi - a painting, surprisingly, for Christmas.
Thoughts on an Usherette - art by Edward Hopper.
A Poem, a Microscope and what we cannot see.
Thank you Sir Kenneth Clark - civilisation on TV.
Hardwick Hall - more glass than wall!
Those naughty Pre-Raphaelites - or were they?
The Divine Mr Beardsley.
Those Dull Victorians? Well, no, not really.
Gothic Revival and the Town Halls of the North.
Caspar David Friedrich ‘Die Lebensstufen’ (1835).