Archive - Still Sketching

A Place after my Heart

Winifred Nicholson's travels with poet Kathleen Raine and a North Norfolk escape

Jun 12 •

May 2025

April 2025

Tiptoe through the tulips

...if only I could!

Apr 24 •

The smallest things are gifts

Pass time slowly in the delightful company of the painter Mary Newcomb (1922-2008)

Apr 10 •

March 2025

An Artist's Garden

Bloomsbury garden paintings and ripping up and starting again

Mar 27 •

Return to the Garden

Seed sowing, a return to Evelyn Dunbar and a gardening love affair

Mar 13 •

February 2025

Winifred Nicholson and the Coming of Spring

Colour, carving out time and more comfort reads

Feb 27

All in black and white

The work of six pioneering women wood engravers and looking again at Jane Austen

Feb 13 •

January 2025

An awfully big adventure

The colourful life of Kathleen Hale, the creator of Orlando the Marmalade Cat

Jan 30 •

The Lyricism of Winter Trees

The drawings and paintings of Elisabeth Vellacott (1905-2002), a tale of persistence and revisiting Wuthering Heights

Jan 16 •

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