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...On view will be works by some of the group’s best-known names, including Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, while Charleston will also offer a facsimile of a rug designed by Grant for £16,000, to benefit the...
...We are in deepest Bloomsbury country, amid the twisting lanes and rolling downs of East Sussex, where the cultish homes of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and company heave with admiring hordes....
...I’ve always been an enormous fan of the painted surrounds at Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, the country home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant of the Bloomsbury Group....
...Bell’s bedroom at Charleston....
...Virginia Woolf and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, escaped the rigid control of their upbringing when they fled their family home in Hyde Park Gate for the less fashionable neighbourhood of Bloomsbury...
...Bell, whose initials are etched in the inky-blue cover she designed for its UK release....
...With this exhibition the obvious analogies are, first, with the ceramics of Quentin Bell, the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, who took himself off to train as a potter in Stoke-on-Trent in the late 1930s,...
...A Duncan Grant and a Vanessa Bell. But I’m giving them to the Trust.”...
...Vanessa Bell’s “Studland Beach”, the opening image, prompts thoughts on the status of women artists as much as on post-Impressionism....
...Bell....
...A photo of the bottom revealed the insignia of the Omega Workshops, a design studio that produced murals, textiles and other homewares by Bloomsbury artists including Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell for six...
...For starters, it’s located in a former outbuilding, about 20 steps from Vanessa Bell’s front door....
...Houses like the glorious Charleston in East Sussex, former home of Bloomsbury Group artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, illustrate so well the joy of an intensely personal interior....
...“Horticulture as an art form, it’s hugely undervalued,” says Harry Hoblyn, head gardener at Charleston, the East Sussex home and studio of Bloomsbury group artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant....
...The Bell District has a ring to it — the Whitechapel Bell Foundry was the oldest manufacturing company in the country when it closed in 2017. Then again, perhaps not....
...They growl like lions, bark, pant and chime like church bells, merging yet distinct in their crescendos. The prompt to sing “I am Queen” exposes a deep-seated urge to compete for status....
...When he made this he was in love with Vanessa Bell, he wore pyjamas made from Maud, a fabric she designed. With clay, things translate.”...
...The same could be said of Bloomsbury artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant at Charleston in Sussex, where the dining table and conversations around it were as important to the ethos as any work produced...
...The portfolio of Duncan’s sexually explicit drawings now on show at Charleston, the house near the south coast of England where Grant lived with Vanessa Bell and, sometimes, David Garnett — both his lovers...
...Bell and Duncan Grant....
...In 1916, at the height of the first world war, Vanessa Bell moved to Charleston, a farmhouse in Sussex, bringing with her Duncan Grant and his lover David Garnett, both conscientious objectors....
...It’s hard not to mention Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell when discussing painted furniture — for the ultimate inspiration look at the wardrobes they adorned at Charleston in East Sussex....
...– the latter would be down from nearby Charleston, where he had lived with his mother, Bloomsbury painter Vanessa Bell....
...And they were mostly men, though my favourite new discovery is one of the few works in the show by a woman, the Vanessa Bell painting “Woman in a Red Hat” (1915), where a woman glares out at us with a pursed...
...Shortly before the first world war, a family holiday by a sleepy sandy bay in Dorset inspired Vanessa Bell to make one of the first Post-Impressionist paintings in the country, “Studland Beach”, into which...
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