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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.”

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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…

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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

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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