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Following David Jones, for Day 2 exploring the still life here are paintings by Winifred Nicholson
Window-Sill, Lugano 1923 @Tate
“What I have tried to do is to paint pictures that can call down colour, so that a picture can be a lamp in one’s home, not merely a window.”
Following David Jones, for Day 2 exploring the still life here are paintings by Winifred Nicholson
Window-Sill, Lugano 1923 @Tate
“What I have tried to do is to paint pictures that can call down colour, so that a picture can be a lamp in one’s home, not merely a window.”
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Still Life by a window c.1927 Brighton & Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Flower Piece c.1927 Government Art Collection
Still Life by a window c.1927 Brighton & Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Flower Piece c.1927 Government Art Collection
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“A pot of lilies of the valley, Mughetti, in a tissue paper wrapper – this I stood on the window sill, behind was azure blue, mountain, lake, sky, all there, and the tissue paper wrapper held the secret of the universe…
“A pot of lilies of the valley, Mughetti, in a tissue paper wrapper – this I stood on the window sill, behind was azure blue, mountain, lake, sky, all there, and the tissue paper wrapper held the secret of the universe…
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“…That picture painted itself, and after that the same theme painted itself on that window sill … sunlight on leaves, and sunlight shining transparent through leaves and through the mystery of the tissue paper.”
Cyclamen and Primula c.1923 @Kettlesyard
“…That picture painted itself, and after that the same theme painted itself on that window sill … sunlight on leaves, and sunlight shining transparent through leaves and through the mystery of the tissue paper.”
Cyclamen and Primula c.1923 @Kettlesyard
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“Poem places flit and fly – hide, and reveal themselves when one is not looking – sometimes even in one’s fireside – not always in the wild far aways.”
View from a Window Ledge c.1930s Linacre College University of Oxford
“Poem places flit and fly – hide, and reveal themselves when one is not looking – sometimes even in one’s fireside – not always in the wild far aways.”
View from a Window Ledge c.1930s Linacre College University of Oxford
