Beach-Combing Magpie

Far from the beach, but still surrounded by treasure of all kinds just ready to be found, looked at, gloated over, gleaned and swiped or simply created! Here are my latest finds....

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Magical Mascarons... Bordeaux.

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Despite the glaring sunlight and the soaring temperatures. I could not stop myself from squinting up at the incredible sculpted heads that...

Elegance and Decadence...

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I keep wondering and pondering about what happened to elegance as an aesthetic aspiration. Wherever you go, wherever you look, much of wha...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

Passionflower and The Blue Bower...

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I recently saw Rossettis' The Blue Bower (1865), currently on loan from the Barber Institute at the Courtauld Gallery . The artist...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

The Enigmatic Saltonstall Painting...

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In amongst the beautiful works of early 17th century portraiture in the Tate Britain is this fascinating group portrait painting. At firs...

Silky Chiffon... Hisbiscus Syriacus.

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The intense heat is beating down so I escaped to the garden centre to have the impression of cool temperatures whilst amongst the flowers,...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Threads and Veins... Tudor Portraiture.

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There is something about Tudor portraiture that serves as a powerful antidote to all the ugliness, sleaziness and general indolence that a...
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