Night Crawler, Steven Outram

Gwen John - Self Portrait (1902)

Gwen John was a Welsh artists whose legacy mostly consists of portraits of anonymous female sitters. During her lifetime she was overshadowed by her bother Augustus, however, today it seems that his prophecy that “in 50 years I will be known as Gwen John’s brother” has come true since most contemporary art critics see her as the more talented of the two.

At 27 she permanently moved Paris since it was easier there for young women to make a living. She lived a fairly solitary life with her cats, devoted most of her time to painting and had several passionate love affairs with men and women. She created several thousand art works that have been praised for their atmosphere of serenity and a reduced colour palette, and are presented in major contemporary collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tate Gallery.

Art by Liu Qing

The Return by Marc Chalmé

Illustrations from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1911.

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View from a Balcony in Autumn by Konstantin Yuon

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Some truly gorgeous embroidery on vintage linens I purchased at an antique sale today. I'm unsure how old they are.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) dir. Peter Jackson