More Portraiture . . .
May I just begin by saying thanks so much for all your supportive and thoughtful comments! Time to just keep on keeping on, I’d say. And despite the potential problems with Anonymous comments — besides…
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Art and/of Perfume
Caesar Boetius van Everdingen’s Girl in a Wide Hat (oil on canvas, c. 1645-1650) symbolizes summer as convincingly as does the painting of lady Winter by the same artist, hung on an adjoining wall in…
View PostVictoria treats — and a Table for One
In Victoria last week, we stayed at the wonderful Swans Hotel, with its marvellous art collection. The Hotel was developed by Michael Williams, an art collector, who bequeathed art and hotel to University of Victoria…
View PostWho’s Joined Us in the Garden? A Bordeaux Visitor
This lovely fellow arrived last week in a parcel of cushions we had shipped from France (more on those later), and we were very pleased to welcome him. We last saw him in Bordeaux where…
View PostArt-ful Paris
We have visited so many museums and exhibitions in the last month: Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh (where we followed a tour guide through a great exposition on Symbolism from Van Gogh to Kandinsky). In…
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