Many of my peers chose the life of the scholar; I became a wife and mother. But in many ways, I am a scholar still, concerned with my own flourishing and, more importantly, that of my children.
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John Lees’s oneiric landscapes and portraits are haunted. And not only by his acknowledged sources, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Fauves like Rouault and Dufy, the precursors of Expressionism, the niche to which Lees is usually assigned. There are other ghosts, especially the mysterious landscapes of Samuel Palmer, themselves channels for the otherworldly works of William Blake. So, Lees is a strange kind of Romantic who finds himself painting in the twenty-first century.
From Roman to Renaissance texts, Cleopatra has always been portrayed as the threatening and subversive other, framed by the relations of contemporary power and empire