Kirsty Stonell Walker

LATEST ARTICLES ( 598 )

• Tuesday 12th December: Virgin of the Angels

  

  Well, look at us! We're halfway there already which means I should probably crack on and write my ghost story for Christmas Eve. In the meantime, here's our nex... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2017 CULTURE

• Monday 11th December: Virgin of the Lilies

  

  Flipping heck it's cold here! I know it's winter but it was about 10 degrees a day or two ago and now it's zero! I am now constantly attached to a hot water... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2017 CULTURE

• Sunday 10th December: Mother and Child

  

  We have made it to double figures! It is bucketing down with rain at the moment and I'm just bracing myself to venturing out in to the post office to get rid... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2017 CULTURE

• Saturday 9th December: The Annunciation

  

  Tomorrow we will have made it into double figures and so I will try and make this the last annunciation because we have rather a lot more of the Virgin Mary to... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2017 CULTURE

• Friday 8th December: The Annunciation (I Know, Again)

  

  We're not through being annunciated it seems, so here we are again, but this one is a bit different...The Annunciation (1877) Simeon SolomonThis time it's a... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2017 CULTURE

• Thursday 7th December: Ecce Ancilla Domini!

  

  Blimey, I am exhausted but then I have just a mammoth food and present shop and walked the dog and so I am having a well-earned sit down with a Tunnocks... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2017 CULTURE

• Wednesday 6th December: The Virgin at the Loom

  

  I thought I'd give you a bit of a break from all the annunciating (completely a word) and bring you this rather smashing lady and her frankly massive loom... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2017 CULTURE

• Tuesday 5th December: The Annunciation (again) (again)

  

  Okay, yes, it's another annunciation, but really, when the pictures are this gorgeous you can't get annunciated (I'm going with that word) enough. Today, we hav... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2017 CULTURE

• Monday 4th December: Annunciation (again)

  

  I promise there will be a break from these endless annunciations soon, after all this isn't just annunciation-vent. However, I am rather fascinated by the... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2017 CULTURE

• Sunday 3rd December: The Annunciation

  

  I hope you are warm and comfy wherever you are. As it is the first Sunday in Advent, I seem to remember there was a special service in church, getting out the... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2017 CULTURE

• Saturday 2nd December: The Annunciation

  

  First weekend of Blogvent! Okay, so it's only been one day but December does seem quite alarmingly short, especially as my daughter has her birthday this month... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2017 CULTURE

• Friday 1st December: The Annunciation

  

  Well, it's that time again! Welcome to Blogvent 2017, and this year's theme will be images of the Virgin Mary. When I announced this to my 11 year old... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2017 CULTURE

• A Chat With Gordon Giltrap and Review of The Last of England

  

  I love when marvellous, unexpected things come in to my life and that is just what happened to me when I was last in Birmingham for the Pre-Raphaelite Society... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2017 CULTURE

• Review: May Morris, Art and Life

  

  The sound you can hear is my cheering. At last, May Morris has her own exhibition and has moved out of her father's shadow and is now seen as a person in her ow... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2017 CULTURE

• I'll Be There For You...

  

  I don't intentionally begin every post with a confession but for the second time in a row, here we go: I'm a bit rubbish when it comes to friendships. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2017 CULTURE

• Mary Hodgkinson, Super-Model

  

  I have a confession to make. In my last two talks about 'Pre-Raphaelite Women', I managed to miss someone out. This is a shocking oversight on my behalf but I... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2017 CULTURE

• The Mystery of the Dark Lady

  

  I like finding out interesting stories to do with paintings and so was delighted to come across the subject of today's post. As you will know, the long-sufferin... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2017 CULTURE

• If Hope Were Not, Heart Should Break

  

  Recently I was discussing next year's Burne-Jones exhibition at the Tate on Facebook and I said I hoped that they would talk about Fanny Cornforth. Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2017 CULTURE

• Rococo Loco!

  

  As some of you that read this blog will know, I also have a bit of a fetish for the eighteenth century. In both my degree and masters with the glorious Open... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2017 CULTURE

• Some Thoughts on Emily Peacock

  

  As you will have read in a previous post of mine, sometimes the job of a biographer can be awfully tricky, especially in the case of women. Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2017 CULTURE