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On a glowering afternoon in July, I went to the National Gallery in Ottawa, Canada. The city’s humidity and heat had been dragged down to Earth by heavy rain, and the air was cool, the sky rather glum. The perfect excuse to be inside a windowless exhibition space, looking at paintings.We were there to see the work of an artist called Helen McNicoll. Born in Toronto in 1879, and living just 35 years until her death in Swanage, UK in 1915, she was a lesser-known member of the impressionist movemen
In a cave under a castle (opens the original)
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I spent most of June in my favourite place in the world. Three and a half weeks on the Pembrokeshire coast, in an area I hold in muscle memory – but which I was visiting, this time, with a more specific purpose. By the time I drove back north last week, I felt as though I’d entered into a phase in my creative life that I’ve been sowing seeds for – perhaps without always realising it – for a long while now. June was a whirl of work and play, tropical rain and searing sun. July has big shoes to fi
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