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• Always Put on the Safe Search Before Googling 'Showers of Gold'...

  

  I'm sure you will recall from this post we looked at the many and varied images of Perseus and Andromeda, and the many and varied ways of showing a nudey lady... Read more

  The 20 June 2016 by   Kirsty Stonell Walker
  

• A Sight to Make an Old Man Young

  

  Today's post is probably going to end up a bit rambling, but it concerns a poem about a painter painting a woman he loved and the paintings based on the poem... Read more

  The 14 June 2016 by   Kirsty Stonell Walker
  

• Room

  

  A few weeks ago my husband and I watched a movie called Room about a young boy who spends the first six years of his life confined in a room with his mother. Read more

  The 10 June 2016 by   Boiseartist
  

• Review: Abigail Jones

  

  This morning I would very much like you to join me for a quickie in the form of a review of Abigal Jones by Grace Callaway...If you are a literature snob, this... Read more

  The 06 June 2016 by   Kirsty Stonell Walker
  

• Review: Painting with Light Exhibition at Tate Britain

  

  Photography is obviously the new black because in the last year I think I've been to more photography exhibitions than I have any other sort. Read more

  The 04 June 2016 by   Kirsty Stonell Walker
  

• Sing!

  

  As you have all witnessed, I love to sing. Even on these otherwise silent pages there is no escape, as I proved in this post. Good Lord, the horror, imagine... Read more

  The 23 May 2016 by   Kirsty Stonell Walker
  

• Exeter University Student of the Year Awards 2016

  

  Delighted to have been asked to make the awards for Exeter University Employee of the Year 2016. This is the second year running I have been commissioned to mak... Read more

  The 18 May 2016 by   Amyorangejuice
  

• When Oscar Met Julia

  

  You may have read recently that the National Portrait Gallery have acquired an album of Oscar Gustave Rejlander’s work and it will be unveiled to the public in... Read more

  The 15 May 2016 by   Kirsty Stonell Walker
  

• The Holy Busker

  

  Mr Walker and I often joke that if you legitimately want to show boobs in a painting, you can always call it 'Andromeda'. By hanging a classical or biblical... Read more

  The 06 May 2016 by   Kirsty Stonell Walker
  

• The Song of the Trousers

  

  While pottering about with research, I came across an interesting little story which I shall share with you. It concerns Ann and Emily Lockyer, mother and... Read more

  The 29 April 2016 by   Kirsty Stonell Walker