What is colour?

‘I want to know one thing. What is colour?’ Pablo Picasso   Asking ‘what colour?’ or ‘what’s your favourite colour?’

6 Sep 2022

Welcoming the Pre Raphs

In 2017, I wrote a blog as I left my year-long role as Coordinator for the Bouts Public Display and

15 Sep 2020

Millais Returns to The Bowes Museum

The recent opening of The Pre-Raphaelite Knights: Reinventing the Medieval World (1 February 2020) at the museum marks a surprising and coincidental

3 Jun 2020

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  This is one of a number of watercolours by Rossetti illustrating the legend of St. George, a Christian knight

23 Apr 2020

William Holman Hunt

Saints’ days were days of celebration or commemoration, though practically they became days of feasting and entertainment. St. Agnes was

2 Apr 2020

William Morris

One of the most important British artists, William Morris was born today 24 March in 1834. He was active as a textile

24 Mar 2020

The Garden Court

The evident sincerity and intensity of Burne-Jones’ work means that even fairytale themes are persuasive to a modern audience. Here

10 Mar 2020

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed in London in 1848 by seven young artistic radicals who rejected the ‘loose’ handling of

3 Mar 2020

Hockney and Hollywood

Late one afternoon earlier in the year my office received a phone call out of the blue from a gentleman

28 Oct 2019

Illuminations

On a beautiful Spring day driving over Bollihope moors towards Barnard Castle, I had absolutely no inkling of how my

6 Mar 2019

The Backwash of War

Ellen la Motte was an American nurse and subsequently journalist and author. She qualified as a nurse in Baltimore, Maryland

5 Mar 2019

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