still life photographer

"I have lived", said Mr. Humphrey Repton in 1816, "to see many of my plans beautifully realised, but many more cruelly marred...

I know that when I am not blogging it must seem to my readers that I am not writing but indeed I am! My paper on Muriel Howorth, founder of...

"A member of the Pole family at her desk C. 1806 at 14 St. James Square, Bristol" From the collection of Bristol Museums and Art G...

Cnidoscolus quercifolius Note the spines... [source] Until this recent article in the Financial Times   I didn't know that the notorious...

image via yorkstories "N ay, I will try these verses, which lately I carved on the green bark of a beech-tree ... " Mopsus  (Virgi...

"Beautiful nature" in the 18th century:  Pope's Garden at Twickenham, c.1730, by William Kent.  From the British Museum “Foll...

This past spring I provided some garden history background to the producers of the new Great Gatsby movie (who were lovely to work with), a...