'The Landing in Summer.' Mary Dawson Elwell emerged on the British art scene as a painter of interiors, or more accurately, 'portrait interiors,' of her Yorkshire home in the 1930s. Her watchwords are stillness, silence, containment, privacy, meditation, illumination.
. . . and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, . . .
#MelvilleMonday#MemorialDay
Moby-Dick
The Chase — Third Day
Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends!
Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳
“. . . all is glee, fishy glee, and frolicking fun; light hearts and light fins, gay backs and gay spirits.—Swim away, swim away! my merry fins all. Let us roam the flood . . .” 🐟🐟🐟
~ Mardi and a Voyage Thither
V.1, C48
The prelates at their consecration make an oath to the pope,clean contrary to the oath that they make to us,so that they seem to be his subjects,and not ours.
✒️Henry VIII.1532
King's College Chapel, Cambridge #England
The Great East Window.
Original 16th-century Stained glass
🎨Midsummer Night's Fairies🧚🏼John George Naish c1856
"I must go seek some dewdrops here
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.."🌼
#MidsummerNightsDream💛
"An hour spent reading
is one stolen from paradise"
(Thomas Wharton)
Art by Karin Jurick (American 1961-2021)
I really love this artist who left us too young in 2021. Her paintings are so relatable. Self taught and obviously from the heart.
'Bathers.' (1918) Renowned for his idealised depictions, Henry Scott Tuke's work primarily comprises of portraits of male sitters backdropped by Cornish seascapes. This picture depicts Newporth beach just outside Falmouth