Caroline Wyatt
@carolinewyatt.bsky.social
Journalist, presenter BBC R4 Saturday PM. Former foreign correspondent. Living with MS.
Here is a gift link to Simon Schama's appreciation of David Hockney's life and art which we ran last year. It's an amazing piece and contains, as you might imagine, some spectacular pictures including an absolute corker of Hackney with Lucian Freud as.ft.com/r/f1473f70-0...
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Caroline Wyatt gets candid about life with MS - and why she thinks the BBC will endure
A diagnosis of multiple sclerosis disrupted BBC correspondent Caroline Wyatt’s career. But 10 years on she’s unbeaten and still broadcasting.
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On dreich days like these it might cheer you up to know that in 19th-century slang an umbrella was a ‘bumbershoot’.
'Lighted Houses, Amsterdam.' A critic, writing in 1921 (the year of this work) commented, Cees Bolding 'gives us out of very simple elements a perfect nocturne constructed from the domesticity of our back streets... he has complete hold of a subject and has made it his own.'
Harry Kernoff's vivid depiction shows Ringsend, Dublin in 1935. Located on the south bank of the River Liffey, it was named from the Gaelic Roinn Aun or Sea Point and in the 17thC took over from Dalkey as Dublin's main port before going into commercial decline in the 20thC.
'Reading by Candlelight.' (1912) Carl Holsøe frequently used his wife Emilie as a model; she is often depicted as though she is being observed unaware. It is her presence which gives this work its tension, making the viewer feel as though we are intruding on a personal, meditative moment.
'Evening Falls.' (1917) is a beautiful example of Nikolai Dubovskoy’s mature period when he painted some of his best works. A hugely influential painter, together with Isaac Levitan, he helped create what came to be known as the landscape of mood.
Many of John Ruskin's watercolours reflect an interest in the close observation of skies and clouds, studied at dawn, sunset (as here in 1845) and in varying weather conditions. His interest in these themes was a lifelong one.
'Pink Lustre Mug and Fan.' (1909) William Nicholson’s use of a lustre mug has enabled to display his technical abilities in depicting the reflective nature of its material. In positioning the objects on a reflective table top, he reinforces the mug’s texture.
Flowers, still lifes and domestic interiors are the primary subjects of Ethel Sands’s painting; here they are combined with books on a small bookcase at the Château d’Auppegard, a large 17thC house near Dieppe where Sands and her partner, the painter Nan Hudson, spent summers together from the 1920s
It is rare to find Hans Heysen's early work from when he was at Académie Julian and Colarossi’s Academy in Paris in the decade before WW1. This work, painted on a cold Parisian morning, is prosaically titled, 'From the Apartment Window, Paris, 1901.'
Ville d'Avray, some ten miles from Paris, was to provide Corot with an important subject for his paintings throughout his career. His father bought a country home here in 1817, and Corot never tired of painting the place which had meant so much to him as a youth. This work is from 1834.
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'Rouen: les lumières sur la Seine, pris du Pont de Pierre,' is one of several versions of this composition which resulted from John Atkinson Grimshaw's only known trip abroad, when he escorted his children's governess, Mrs Ruhl, back to Germany in 1878.
With its thriving port, picturesque architecture and the beautiful surrounding countryside, the coastal town of Kirkcudbright in Scotland has attracted artists from the 19thC onwards. Samuel Peploe's paintings of the town (this is from around 1917) emphasise the geometry of its buildings.
'Sunday Afternoon, Hyde.' (c1932) Harry Rutherford was described by his teacher Walter Sickert, as: 'my intellectual heir and successor.' Rutherford carried over Sickert's teaching that an initial drawing was about capturing an idea to jog the memory, which was then revisited and developed.
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon made studies after many artists, including Velàzquez and Frans Hals and in particular, such as this sunset, after J.M.W. Turner. These works provide a record of his continual process of study; they are not straight copies but interpretations in his own pictorial language.
Walter Bayes' inspiration for this painting from 1917 will have stemmed partly from his former tutor Walter Sickert, who himself depicted cinema in the early years of the 20thC. Like Sickert's work, the focus here is on the audience, the cinema's interior, and the action on the stage.
Philip de László was one of the most cosmopolitan portrait painters of the late 19th and early 20thC, and perhaps the last heir of the grand manner; here (1925) he portrays Viscount and Viscountess Lee at their country house Chequers, later donated to the nation as a retreat for the Prime Minister.
'In the wild north.' (1891) Romantic, uncontrived and unmistakably Ivan Shishkin. His method of working was largely based on meticulous observation and the use of sketches which enabled him to build his own pictorial lexicon of a landscape.
CAT ADVISORY: Temperatures in the UK could drop to -10c tonight. All cats should IMMEDIATELY find the warmest spot in the house and stay there. Tell humans to bring you snacks and to keep the second warmest spot free in case you want a change of scenery.
Completed in 1903, Monet's windowless silhouette of the Houses of Parliament with its atmospheric array of jewel-like violets and lilacs, cobalt and inky blues, and deep pink tones, appears mystical, as the building dissolves into the expansive, still waters of the River Thames.
'Miss Hussey.' (c1953) Carel Weight is known for his portrayals of daily life in Battersea and Clapham and for his penetrating portraits, of which this is a prime example. Miss Hussey was a near neighbour in Putney and in Weight's words 'formidable at chess.'
'A Winter Landscape.' (c1960) Jeremiah Hoad's paintings are a product of an intense and spiritual engagement with the landscape, in this case County Donegal. He once said he was baffled how he came to paint: 'it's like a meditation, I end the day not knowing how I arrived at what is on the canvas.'
