The Mare’s Tale

by Catriona Urquhart images by Clive Hicks-Jenkins In 2001, Newport Museum and Art Gallery housed a major exhibition of the paintings and drawings of Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Though partly retrospective, the main part of the exhibition was a sequence of work entitled The...

Green Blades

by Thomas Hardy images by Mark Cazalet Thomas Hardy’s wife Emma died in November 1912, in the attic room of their house where she had lived estranged from him. Their marriage had hardened into an empty shell and Hardy had long been in love with Florence Dugdale, whom...

The Paradise Driver

by Nicolas McDowall images by Nicolas McDowall recollected and devised by Nicolas McDowall and with images 'found' and 'edited' by him The text of this somewhat unusual book is taken verbatim from the tape-recorded recollection of a single night of...

Joys

by Thomas Traherne images by Angela Lemaire The seventeenth century writings of Thomas Traherne lay largely unknown until they were re-discovered early in the twentieth century. The writing is celebrated today for its rapture and delight in nature and its luminous,...

The Revelation of Saint John the Divine

by Saint John the Divine images by Natalie d’Arbeloff visually interpreted by Natalie d'Arbeloff In about thirty startling black and white drawings with collage, Natalie d'Arbeloff creates the sense of a powerful current sweeping through the book, the words...