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Still Sketching

Deborah Vass

Still sketching: art, reading, and the hidden stories of women artists from my Norfolk studio

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A Monthly Gathering: July - A Bunch of Summer

Some Cider with Rosie, a Shirley Thompson discovery, riotous hollyhocks and fairies at the bottom of the garden

Welcome to this month’s Gathering, a collection of notes from the garden, sketchbooks, reading discoveries and updates on my re...

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The Name on a Penguin Cover

This week we jump forward to the Swinging Sixties. Prompted by Laura Thompson’s recent post about Elizabeth Bowen, I pulled my 1966 Penguin copy of The Demon Lover and Other Stories off the shelf. It is a chilling ghost story set during th...

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Through the Woods

The wood is not far from the house. You can see it, in fact, from the windows. We might as well go straight down to it.

This is how a favourite book begins. Some books do not simply tell a story, but lead us by the hand into another...

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A Monthly Gathering: June

A good year for the roses, Elizabeth Blackadder and the iris who found her name

June has arrived in a rush of roses after the shock of a blistering May. The garden seems to have slipped almost overnight from spring into early summer, with...

2 months ago
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The return of old friends

Roger Fry (1866-1934), Summer in the Garden, 1911, oil on panel, 44.5 x 55.9 cm.

This is not my usual choice of painting, to begin with it is by a male artist: Roger Fry’s portrait of Vanessa Bell in his garden at Durbins, near Gu...

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