A beguiling approach to the relationship of artists to the sea, looking in detail at single works by ten artists: from Vanessa Bell's Studland Beach and Paul Nash's Winter Sea, via Alfred Wa... read more
Angelica Kauffman , Marie-Anne Collot, Elisabeth Vig?e Le Brun, Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna and others. Blakesley's The Russian Canvas was excellent.
A fine book on the first woman artist of European standing, with special emphasis on her impact in England where she was the first female member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
A glorious, large-format facsimile of Mabel Ashburton's album of watercolours of her five-month journey to the Far East. Her skill as a watercolourist is very considerable and her eye fresh;... read more
Catalogue of the recent exhibition of her ravishing pictures at the Redfern Gallery, where her work can be seen to shift from precise line drawing to abstraction and colour, culminating in l... read more