by Penny | 30 Apr, 2019 | Designer tiles, Exhibitions, Modern Art, News, Photography, Silverpoint, UK Activity
26th April 2019 Sir Peter Blake surges on as the Artist in Conversation at The Royal Academy Sir Peter Blake It is always a privilege to see an icon in the flesh and I knew that Sir Peter Blake now needed a stick to get around these days – but had no doubt that...
by Penny | 7 Feb, 2015 | Books, Films, News, poets and poetry, Social History, St Mark's English Church Florence, UK Activity
David Herbert Lawrence -(1885- 1930) On 15th May 1926 D H Lawrence wrote to his friend, the aristocratic socialite and painter Dorothy Brett, from Villa Mirenda in Scandicci to advise her that he and his wife Frieda von Richthofen had taken the top half of the Villa...
by Penny | 2 Aug, 2014 | Australia, Books, Exhibitions, News, Painting, poets and poetry, Sculpture, UK Activity
One of our favourite models for our Watercolour Workshops in Florence is Australian Equitation expert Victor Caulfield. For the past two years watercolour portraitist and I have held our Watercolour Workshops at his previous home in Florence in the famous home of the...
by Penny | 18 Nov, 2013 | Religious History, Renaissance Art, UK Activity
My early morning run today took me to the Tate Britain Gallery where I called in to see the Exhibition “Art under Attack.” The first room of the Exhibition is all about English King Henry VIII’s break with the Roman Catholic Church, which was largely...
by Penny | 8 Nov, 2013 | Cooking, The Medici, UK Activity
It is approaching the end of the mushroom season, so some of my Italian friends escape as often as they can in search of the final crops of fresh porcini mushrooms in the woods around the Tuscan region of Maremma . Previously the Maremma was one of the most dangerous...
by Penny | 14 Oct, 2013 | Australia, Painting, poets and poetry, UK Activity
Watercolours, Wine, and a visit to the Brownings! Poor Gordon , pictured below, thought he was coming over from Australia for a holiday with Victor Caulfield, portrayed behind him, but found himself tethered to a chair with a black cushion for a hat , sitting still...
