- Angelica Garnett: 25th December 1918 – 4th May 2012
- Artists & Illustrators magazine feature Charleston and our exciting What’s On programme
- Olivia Laing’s workshop featured in Viva Lewes
- Beautiful items from the Charleston Shop in Ideal Home magazine
- Quentin Bell, Rob Ryan and Staffordshire in the Decorative Arts Journal
- Charleston Festival in The Week
Category Archives: Canvas
Too Much Suicide?
Lyndall Gordon questions the emphasis on suicide in narratives of Virginia Woolf’s life Seventy years ago, on Friday 28 March 1941, Virginia Woolf famously weighted her pockets with stones, and waded into the fast-running River Ouse near her home in … Continue reading
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Bloomsbury voices: Duncan Heyes
Canvas Issue 26 Duncan Heyes describes the choices made in compiling the British Library’s latest contribution to the oral history of Bloomsbury. September saw the release of the CD ‘The Bloomsbury Group’, the eighteenth release in the British Library’s series … Continue reading
Looking back on 20 years of the Charleston Festival
Canvas Issue 24 20 Stellar Years: Virginia Nicholson in conversation with Olivier Bell Even if they don’t know her, Charleston Festival regulars will have seen her there. White hair swept back in a bun, and quietly colourful with a string … Continue reading
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Painter’s model and poet: Paul Roche
Canvas Issue 23 by Paul E.H. Davis Shortly before Paul Roche’s death, aged 91,on 30 October 2007, Darren Clarke, Charleston’s Visitor Manager, went to Mallorca to interview him and record his memories of Duncan Grant and Charleston.
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The utmost for the highest – Memories of Duncan Grant
Canvas Issue 22 by Simon Watney Angelica Garnett was interviewed by Simon Watney at Charleston on 26 May 2008. This is an edited transcript of their conversation. Simon Watney: For the dwindling band of us who actually remember Duncan and … Continue reading
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Bloomsbury ballerina
Canvas Issue 21 by Judith Mackrell Anyone who has read even a sample of Bloomsbury memoirs and biographies will be familiar with the name of Lydia Lopokova. The witty, vivid little ballerina who danced with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and was … Continue reading
Before Post-Impressionism: Vanessa Bell’s Iceland Poppies
Canvas issue 18 Simon Martin In September 1940 Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’s London studios at No. 8 Fitzroy Street were destroyed by an incendiary bomb and much of Bell’s early work was destroyed. ‘Vanessa takes it very philosophically,’ Grant … Continue reading
Virginia Woolf meets Sigmund Freud
Canvas Issue 18 by Julia Briggs The following is an edited version of the talk given by Julia Briggs at the Charleston Festival in 2006. My title suggests that old-fashioned game of ‘Consequences’ we used to play as children: Virginia … Continue reading
Grace Higgens
Canvas Issue 17 The British Library has just taken possession of the archive of Grace Higgens, consisting of diaries, letters and photographs from her long life, more than fifty years of which were spent working for Vanessa Bell and Duncan … Continue reading
Charleston remembered – The first decade
Canvas Issue 16 by Deborah Gage Deborah Gage recalls the highs and lows of the campaign to save Charleston for posterity On my return to England after eight years spent living in New York I was offered a property on … Continue reading
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