by Clare Finn | Sep 11, 2025 | Visual Arts
‘Per-Kiridy’ at High Tide, 1889, by Théo van Rysselberghe (1862 – 1926), Oil on canvas, 67.8 x 106.3 cm, Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands (KM 103.422), © Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands. Photographer: Rik... 
by Clare Finn | May 23, 2025 | Visual Arts
As with so many of the Watts Gallery exhibitions they show us a life and meaning to the art of the 19th century that today has passed us by or seems foreign. So it is with this exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. We see John Everett Millais’ painting of The Blind... 
by Clare Finn | Apr 9, 2025 | Visual Arts
In September 1940 Hitler’s Luftwaffe bombed London, damaging Henry Moore’s flat in Hampstead. This led directly to Moore and his Ukrainian wife, Irina, nee Radetsky, moving to rural Hertfordshire, to the village of Perry Green near Much Hadham. There they rented half... 
by Clare Finn | Dec 18, 2024 | Archives, Visual Arts
Picasso made prints throughout his career. His very first, made in 1899, was an etching of a Picador, El Zurdo (“The Left-handed Man”), left-handed because he did not realise printing would reverse the image. His The Frugal Meal, was the first print he made as a... 
by Clare Finn | Oct 21, 2024 | Visual Arts
Mother Vera is a film directed by Cécile Embleton and Alys Tomlinson. Winner in the Documentary category of the BFI London Film Festival, the Grierson Award), Mother Vera has a story that initially may not draw viewers immediately but it is the skill by which this...