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...I added violets and Queen Anne’s jonquil, to my mind the richest, headiest of the daffodils....
...It includes crocuses, blue scillas and white anemones, followed by white violets....
...Violet and rose are characteristic of the cuvée, but the floral notes in the 2014 Rosé are “particularly extraordinary”, says chef de cave Emilien Boutillat....
...Her piece “Sweet Violet” draws links between the human heart and a seed, while also reflecting on ideas of birth and nurturing....
...This, Doig says, “left its mark on ‘Two Trees’, prompting me to consider how landscapes bear witness to humanity’s capacity for cruelty towards each other”....
...In a rare interview with the Guardian in 2012, Coates said that she was no “shrinking violet” but that she did not enjoy public attention. “I’ve been bossy all my life....
...“You work in finance and set up a hedge fund, you are not a shrinking violet,” Whittaker said....
...He will offer, among other finds, a drawing, “They Say the Flowers But Sleep in Winter — Awaiting The Spring”, by Violet Brunton (1878-1951), an aspiring sculptor who turned after the first world war to...
...But whether this new Burberry is desirable and aspirational enough to enable the brand to achieve its lofty sales targets remains a question mark....
...Painted in 1903-04, her portrait of McNeill marks a period when the pair walked through France, sleeping alfresco and selling drawings to make ends meet....
...The “Violet” episode, for instance, establishes Leo’s back-story, while “Yellow” sees him assemble his cadre of rogues (played by Paz Vega, Rosaline Elbay, Peter Mark Kendall and Jai Courtney)....
...Of all Peru’s landscapes it was the Andes, their Inca heritage and unique rural culture, that made the deepest mark on him....
...A republican atheist, Monet in 1891-95 depicted “Rouen Cathedral” 30 times, not as a religious monument but as a surface for light and dripping paint — golden, pink, violet....
...Mark Simpson’s Clarinet Quintet, first heard earlier this year in Oxford, packs a huge amount into just over 20 minutes....
...Another famed expat, Violet Trefusis – lover of my grandmother Vita Sackville-West – is dubbed “a colourful old parrot”....
...In the same way that one only notices marks on the paintwork after inviting people round, my nostrils had been opened to the true scentscape....
...He marks the hours by “Noony”, the midday train rushing past each day....
...These ecstatic compositions wrought from memory and “a feeling that comes to me from the outside, from landscape” demonstrate how she fused a response to nature with abstract mark-making....
...June 1-26, operanorth.co.uk Violet Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk and Hackney Empire, London Set in a town where time is losing an hour a day, Violet is described as an opera “for now and about now”....
...It first made its mark in the art world in the 1960s – pioneered by the likes of Joseph Kosuth and Bruce Nauman – and its presence at the moment is particularly playful....
...The earth melts into gold-green dabs, and in the foreground violet-blue reversed echoes of its jaggedness flicker, tempestuous and bewildering....
...Vita had once described the view out of her window as “not too depressingly German”: the Berlin years left no mark on its conception, varied though it was....
...Curator Vivian Li points to his “obsessive mark-making”, building up varied brushstrokes and dots into rich surface patterns awash with references from Matisse to Yayoi Kusama....
...Fellow up-and-comers Chopova Lowena and Nensi Dojaka also made their mark in London....
...It marks a new chapter in the castle’s almost-1,000-year history – the suite was revitalised with a view that it will be remembered a century from now....
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