Keats on the Joy of Singledom and How Solitude Opens Our Creative Channels to Truth and Beauty – Brain Pickingswordpress.com “The roaring of the wind is my wife and the Stars through the window pane are my Children… I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand …
Margate Translated #Artwordpress.com In the 1700s, bathing in the sea and drinking seawater became a fashionable cure for all sorts of diseases. From the Georgian period onwards visitors …
Goya, The Portraits at the National Gallerywordpress.com Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) ranks with Velasquez at the pinnacle of Spanish painting. Best known today for his compelling depictions of …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Theatrical Attitude #Artwordpress.com This enchantress was the famous late 19th and early 20th century actress and singer Miss Marie Tempest [1864-1942], who is referred to in the …
#PhotoRehabCoverMakeover #16 Dark Side of the Moonwordpress.com It’s Week 16 of the Photo Rehab Cover Makeover run by Desley Jane of Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist and Lucile of Lucile de Goday, A makeover …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Casanova’s Waterway #Artwordpress.com I’m back on the moody and mysterious trail with Casanova’s Waterway. The original photograph of Venice, taken by Nick Scheerbart, is available for …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Suzuki Harunobu and Japanese Erotica | A R T L▼R Kwordpress.com On the 7th of July 1770, allegedly, Japanese woodblock print artist Suzuki Harunobu died of a sudden illness. The place and real cause of his death …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Flying Fish #Art #Steampunkwordpress.com A gentle touch of steampunk to start the week. I’ve used the reverse of one of my vintage postcards and added an almond green texture. To this I have …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Healthiest Diet in the Mediterraneanwordpress.com In the mid-1990s, after a delightful holiday in Crete with a dear friend, she and I decided we wanted to buy a bolt-hole on the island. I planned to …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo #PhotoRehabCoverMakeover #15 Six Days Seven Nightswordpress.com It’s Week 14 already of the Photo Rehab Cover Makeover run by Desley Jane of Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist and Lucile of Lucile de Goday, …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo The Bride Beautiful #Vintage #Photographywordpress.com “Dead people are easy to love. It’s the living ones who are hard.” ― Laurence Overmire This late Victorian beauty in her exquisite wedding gown is an …
‘Such Serviceable Flowers’ #Artwordpress.com The title is a quote from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark in which the inimitable Morningside teacher of impressionable girls is talking …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Hummingbird Tunewordpress.com Inspired by the exquisite paintings of Janet Weight Reed, whose running motif is the hummingbird, I have used the same background as in Seagull …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid! #Halloweenwordpress.com It’s astonishing what you can achieve when you don’t know what you want or where you’re heading. Such was the case with Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid! I …
Don’t look now but here comes another Lighthouse #Artwordpress.com After the success of Scorched Earth both here and in my galleries, I couldn’t resist trying the same process with the 2 Lil’ Owls texture—2LO …
#PhotoRehabCoverMakeover #14 The Incident at Montebello by P.A. Moedwordpress.com #photorehabcovermakeover Week 14; The Incident at Montebello by Patti Moed It’s Week 14 of the Photo Rehab Cover Makeover run by Desley Jane of …
#PhotoRehabCoverMakeover #13 Golden Valley Silver Flowerswordpress.com It’s Week 13 of the Photo Rehab Cover Makeover run by Desley Jane of Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist and Lucile of Lucile de Goday, and I …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo So I Have a Number of Faults, said the Skeletonwordpress.com There are two versions available, one that says ‘What was I – just a number’ and ‘So I have a number of faults!’ The original vintage skeletons are …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Angel Love #Christmas #Artwordpress.com I know, I know — the last thing you want to think about is Christmas, especially when we still have Halloween and Thanksgiving to come but what’s a …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Venetian Harbour, Chania #Artwordpress.com This photograph of the Venetian Harbour in Chania, Crete, was taken by me on this occasion and not Mr FND! My idea was to create a watercolour with …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo #PhotoRehabCoverMakeover #9 George Orwell’s 1984wordpress.com It’s Week 9 of the Photo Rehab Cover Makeover run by Desley Jane of Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist and Lucile of Lucile de Goday. Actually, …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo The Woman Behind the Curtainwordpress.com As usual, I had something entirely different in mind when I began The Woman Behind the Curtain. I had discovered a photograph on Wikimedia of a …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo ‘Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive…’wordpress.com ‘Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.’ William Wordsworth, The Prelude Romantic Meeting is available on other products …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Rachel Strong by Léon Bakst 1924 #Cards #Printswordpress.com Rachel Strong by Léon Bakst 1924 © First Night Vintage The Russian designer and painter Léon Bakst (1866–1924), born Lev Samuilovich Rozenberg, is …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Pierre Louis Pierson (1822 – 1913) – Countess Virginie de Castiglione | ღ Vintage Blogwordpress.com In 1844 Pierre-Louis Pierson began operating a studio in Paris that specialized in hand-colored daguerreotypes. In 1855 he entered into a partnership …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo #PhotoRehabCoverMakeover #7 The Green Milewordpress.com It’s Week 7 of the Photo Rehab Cover Makeover run by Desley Jane of Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist and Lucile of Lucile de Goday. This week, …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo ‘Happiness is a Butterfly’wordpress.com ‘Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.’ …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Old Chelsea – more photographs from the Miscellany | The Library Time Machinewordpress.com The interest here is not number 19 St Leonard’s Terrace, a perfectly good house which takes up most of the picture, but the door to number 18 on the …
