The Great British Art Tour: Sally Moore tangles with her wild side Morfudd Bevan, art curator, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
“I wish to create images imbued with a sense of the bizarre and the surreal. For me, the animals represent a threat, an anxiety or fear however irrational that needs to be overcome,” said Sally Moore of this image, Cat’s Cradle.
Moore’s captivating surrealist works often include a psychological element based on real experience. Her enjoyment lies in depicting anxieties, often relating to social interaction and haunting fantasies, through visual metaphors, bringing to mind the works of Frida Kahlo.
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Jonathan Richardson the elder (1667–1745) National Portrait Gallery, London
Horace Walpole, who based his account of Kent on George Vertue s unflattering biography, regarded his work as a painter as below mediocrity . This has been the nearly unanimous verdict of posterity.
Yet, it should not be forgotten that Kent had trained as a painter in Rome. According to Vertue, who is probably a reasonably reliable source for this, after an initial apprenticeship as a coach painter & house painter he migrated to London and travelled out to Italy in July 1709 in company with John Talman, son of the leading architect of the time, and Daniel Lock, who was, like Talman, a person of wide artistic tastes.