Ribbons of Light

Diana by Walter Crane 1881 I love the slightly gloomy, twilit atmosphere of this painting, accentuated by the trees looming in the b...

Collecting period drama pictures from various corners of the web has become something of a hobby for me. The reason for this being that the ...

Feeling starved of beauty in an ugly, postmodernist world? Sick of being force-fed images of stick-thin celebrities by the media? T...

Summer Offering In honour of the recent beginning of summer for all of my Northern-Hemisphere readers. :-)

Flora

An Oleander

Thou Rose of all the Roses Incidentally, the light in this picture - and the sea, the sky, and forested hill in the background - remind of A...

The Drawing Room at Towsend House What a beautiful room! The richness of the colours, textures, and patterns. . .

Among the Ruins

Bluebells

Detail from "Reading a book" by Rudolf Ernst At the beginning of last year I wrote up a book list for myself. . . I thought I mi...

Under the birches, evening - by Theodore Rousseau

Think Australian landscapes: think harsh sunlight, the bush, the outback, desert, sand, vivid blue sky. These are some of the images that co...

Inspired by this beautiful book which I found at the library (and which is now sadly out of print, or else I'd probably buy myself a co...

La Primavera, by Walter Crane Click here to view full-size image.

A Moonlit Night , by Carl Wagner

  The Year's at the Spring. All's Right with the World by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema . . .What you feel when you finish breakfast and...

Tell me what you think! I was searching for a painting to use - I was pretty much at my wits end! - then I thought "Yeah. . . I'll ...

Hello. . . time for a long-overdue post!! I have been somewhat distracted of late - myself and all seven of my siblings have had a nasty cou...

" . . . should be so sadly, cruelly destroy' d" -- [Yes, that is the title of this painting! Bit, of a mouthful, isn't it!...