Guest blog: Fashionable and sustainable
11 Sep 2023
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The joys of colour, technology and light with Billy Wang
My studio, TechxArtisan, is a creative technology studio in Guangzhou. In January of 2021, as we familiarised ourselves with the
What is colour?
‘I want to know one thing. What is colour?’ Pablo Picasso Asking ‘what colour?’ or ‘what’s your favourite colour?’
Pre-Raphaelite Knights in Shining Armour
What should a medieval or mythical knight look like? In the days when suits of armour were already relics of
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
Richard III and the Age of Chivalry
It is fitting that on the day when we celebrate the legendary figure of St George, we consider a figure
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
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
This is one of a number of watercolours by Rossetti illustrating the legend of St. George, a Christian knight
William Holman Hunt
Saints’ days were days of celebration or commemoration, though practically they became days of feasting and entertainment. St. Agnes was
William Morris
One of the most important British artists, William Morris was born today 24 March in 1834. He was active as a textile
The Garden Court
The evident sincerity and intensity of Burne-Jones’ work means that even fairytale themes are persuasive to a modern audience. Here
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
Hockney and Hollywood
Late one afternoon earlier in the year my office received a phone call out of the blue from a gentleman
Illuminations
On a beautiful Spring day driving over Bollihope moors towards Barnard Castle, I had absolutely no inkling of how my
The Backwash of War
Ellen la Motte was an American nurse and subsequently journalist and author. She qualified as a nurse in Baltimore, Maryland
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