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Following Faint Traces

On researching overlooked women artists, missed threads, and learning to listen differently

Jan 8 • Deborah Vass

The Artist Behind Narnia: Pauline Baynes

From winter classrooms to magical worlds, rediscovering the artist who opened the wardrobe to Narnia and A Giant under the Snow

Dec 11, 2025 • Deborah Vass

Claimed by the Sea: Joan Eardley and Catterline

On choosing your landscape rather than inheriting it

Nov 28, 2025 • Deborah Vass

Hefted to the Land: the painter Sheila Fell (1931 - 1979)

A landscape of memory and loss, November comfort listening and returning to Sue Gee

Nov 13, 2025 • Deborah Vass

Windows on the North

From a rain-soaked cottage in the Peaks to Winifred Nicholson’s Banks Head, with some bookish joys along the way.

Oct 30, 2025 • Deborah Vass

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A Garden in Winter

Dec 5, 2024

Jan 2, 2025 • Deborah Vass

Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering Heights

Oct 9, 2025 • Deborah Vass

Something to do

Aug 14, 2025 • Deborah Vass

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