Cathy's Art Diary

Open exhibition at the Cornerstone in Didcot by showing local artists’ responses to the theme Flora and Fauna. On the whole this was poor with slightly wonky vases of flowers or pretentious close ups of leaves however I did like an installation I the middle of specimen dried flowers in jars and a painting of a garden by Linda Benton.

A nice small crafts exhibition at the Cornerstone in Didcot . There was a nice variation of crafts ranging from jewellery to ceramics. The best was a wood turner in the far corner, however I’m a bit biased as he’s a family friend, Richard Shock .

Lecture at the National Gallery to accompany it’s current exhibition “ Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey ” . The lecture was given my Leanda de Lisle the author of “The Sisters who would be Queen” a joint biography of Lady Jane and her sisters Catherine and Mary. It was a romp through Jane’s life painting her, not as the victim seem in Delaroche’s picture, but as a politically aware, religiously committed young woman.