Historical biographer writing about Sir John Vanbrugh and his circle. Member of @SamJohnsonSoc and Associate Fellow of the @RoyalHistSoc. Views my own.
I’m certainly not a Jacobite, but who could resist a tin with Bonnie Prince Charlie on it? The other tin is for my growing collection of water soluble wax crayons.
For @Telegraph, I wrote about the case of the missing masterpieces at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Where are great works by William and May Morris, the city's radical Surrealists, Sandro Botticelli, Orazio Gentileschi, Simone Martini, Eugène Delacroix and Canaletto?
Enjoyed a trip to Garsington yesterday for Rosenkavalier. Surprisingly we didn’t see any red kites trying to steal picnics - not sure what’s got into them.
Been drawing things around me, including this vintage Buddha necklace - gifted to me by a former colleague of my husband’s. I think she bought it in China.
I’m doing a course in contour drawing and using comics as a way of building confidence in urban sketching. Started this one about our weekend breakfast with Rusty. Drawing is all over the shop but I’m quite pleased that I made it this far.
Like many of you, I am disgusted with people using AI to write any kind of text, but I am even more annoyed to see educated people, with doctoral degrees, well-paid tenured faculty positions, who allegedly have two brain cells, using AI to created ugly, pathetic visual images.