Monthly Archives: September 2023

Maternal Affection

Posted on September 11, 2023 by Brian

Sculptor, Edward Hodges Bailey; white marble, carved in the round; made 1841. ‘The son of a ship’s carver, Baily began his career as a modeller in wax. He spent seven years in John Flaxman’s studio, acknowledged as his favourite and … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 55: Italy 2004

Posted on September 10, 2023 by Brian

Piano Rialzato, Venice, 6th May 2004 The day started with patches blue breaking the overcast sky and promising better things.  By quarter past eight, when I went to buy bread and a melon in the Campo Santa Margherita, the sun … Continue reading →

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Marriage

Posted on September 9, 2023 by Brian

‘Marriage a-la-Mode is a series of six pictures painted by William Hogarth between 1743 and 1745, intended as a pointed skewering of 18th-century society.’

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Mining the Diaries 54: Wales 2004

Posted on September 8, 2023 by Brian

Or’eira, Llanfacherth, Dolgellau 11th April 2004 Arrived yesterday – our first stay here.  It is wonderfully quiet and feels very remote – hills, birdsong, fragmented fields, sheep grazing, daffodils in bloom and black-fingered oaks about to burst into leaf.  Peace … Continue reading →

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Yucca

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Brian

Seen on my way home from an early visit to the hairdresser this morning.

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Outrageous Art

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Brian

The editors of the Royal Academy of Arts Magazine (no. 160 Autumn 2023) asked contributors to nominate their favourite outrageous works of art.  Architecture and design critic Edwin Heathcote offered: ‘Artist Sophie Calle’s Suite Venitienne (1980), in which she surreptitiously … Continue reading →

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Fen Landscape: Cottenham, September 2023

Posted on September 6, 2023 by Brian

End of a beautiful Indian summer day at Great North Fen, Cottenham. Recalling Fay Godwin’s The Duke of Westminster’s Estate, Forest of Bowland, 1989.

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Only Colour: Orange Orange

Posted on September 5, 2023 by Brian

In English, the colour orange is named after the appearance of the eponymous fruit. Before the late 15th Century, the colour was called yellow-red. The earliest known use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1502, in a description of … Continue reading →

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Only Colour: Pyrocantha Orange

Posted on September 3, 2023 by Brian
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