Kirsty Stonell Walker

LATEST ARTICLES ( 598 )

• Sunday 5th December - The Honourable Edith Helen Chaplin (1878-1959)

  

  I'm up especially early this morning as we have a food delivery coming which is very exciting as no-one here can go out for another week so it's good to know... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2021 CULTURE

• Saturday 4th December - The Foster Mother

  

  Here we are at the first weekend of Dogvent and I have a confession to make. I've been slightly cheating on Blossom recently. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2021 CULTURE

• Friday 3rd December - Barney, Leave the Girls Alone

  

  Today's picture for Dogvent contains a lovely bit of sky. I'll start with that because what follows is decidedly less wholesome. Anyway, look at this lovely... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2021 CULTURE

• Thursday 2nd December - Cupboard Love

  

  Hello again and welcome back to Dogvent, brought to you from isolation with only my other plague-ridden family and dog for company...Blossom! Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2021 CULTURE

• Wednesday 1st December - Josephine Bowes, Countess of Montalbo

  

  Lawks, it's Blogvent once more! How time flies when exactly the same thing seems to happen over and over again and here we are possibly on the edge of another... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2021 CULTURE

• Review: Rossetti's Portraits at the Holburne Museum

  

  Good Lord, it seems an age since I went to see anything pretty. Very slowly the unlocking seems to have become a reality and museums are feeling brave enough... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2021 CULTURE

• Review: The Magnificent British Garden Robin (in His Own Words)

  

  On the blog page for my novel We Are Villains All, I included this gorgeous illustration...It comes from a Victorian natural history-type book called Creatures... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2021 CULTURE

• Mary F Raphael (1861-1942)

  

  Occasionally I'll see a picture and think - 'That's lovely, I'm sure there is loads known about that artist...' and then see it's by a woman and think - 'Rats... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2021 CULTURE

• A Drawing of Mary Hillier

  

  One of the things I most love about this blog is being contacted by people who have images to show me, and then being able to bring you those pictures for your... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2021 CULTURE

• Price and Forse

  

  Happy New Year and let's hope 2021 treats us a lot less roughly than 2020 did. I'll kick the year off with a post on two men and one painting. To start with,... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2021 CULTURE

• Thursday 24th December - A Ghost Story for Christmas Eve

  

  Do It Now A cold, damp Christmas Eve brought John Montague to the plain-fronted club in the London side street. Shrugging off an overcoat that was heavy with... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2020 CULTURE

• Wednesday 23rd December - The Best Kisses in the World

  

  Well, today is the last of the pictures for Snogvent as tomorrow I will bring you a ghost story, inspired by a picture, but we'll talk about that later. Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2020 CULTURE

• Tuesday 22nd December - Destroy What You Like In Your Passion...

  

  Goodness, well we have only a couple of days of Snogvent left, which is possibly for the best as this has all been far too silly. I'll make sure that today's... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2020 CULTURE

• Monday 21st December - Such is Life

  

  Today is the shortest day, and this might be the shortest post as I have quite a bit of housework and cooking to do today, not to mention walking the dog and th... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2020 CULTURE

• Sunday 20th December - The Birth of Venus

  

  Well, things have somewhat changed in the last 24 hours here in the UK and I hope everyone is finding a way to deal with the adjustment in our expectation of... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2020 CULTURE

• Saturday 19th December - In Bed

  

  I am spending the last few days before Christmas frantically tidying the house up. You'd think that we were hosting some sort of magnificent event, but obviousl... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2020 CULTURE

• Friday 18th December - The Kiss

  

  I've been trying to avoid today's image. I love the artist, I love his work and don't actually mind this particular art work but it felt like such an obvious... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2020 CULTURE

• Thursday 17th December - The Kiss of Peace

  

  This has been a bit of a peculiar year, to say the least. One wonderfully sparkly highlight for me has been the publication of my biography of Julia Margaret... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2020 CULTURE

• Wednesday 16th December - Dante's Dream

  

  While looking for pictures for Snogvent, I obviously wanted to have as many Pre-Raphaelite pics here as possible,but it is a bit of a universal truth that,... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2020 CULTURE

• Tuesday 15th December - Vanity

  

  We are ten sleeps away from Christmas day now and I really have to finish doing all my outdoor things so I can concentrate on hibernating. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2020 CULTURE