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Marie-Clémentine, Maria and Susanna

Becoming Suzanne Valadon By Margie MacKinnon Originally published in RESTORATION CONVERSATIONS magazine Autumn/Winter 2025 - Issue 8 Suzanne Valadon, 1923, The Violin Case, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Source: Wikipedia Suzanne Valadon’s life reads like a paperback novel, with a plot that takes the heroine from obscurity to notoriety and, belatedly, much deserved acclaim. Its setting is Montmartre, the bohemian centre of turn-of-the-century Paris, and the cast of

The Truths You Can(’t) Tell

Carla Danella in conversation with author Vanessa Nicolson By Linda Falcone Originally published in RESTORATION CONVERSATIONS magazine Autumn/Winter 2025 - Issue 8 Art historian and author Vanessa Nicolson, ph. courtesy of the author Freelance writer and curator Carla Danella speaks with long-time friend Vanessa Nicolson, an art historian and author of the memoirs Have you Been Good? and The Truth Game . More recently, Nicolson published Angels of Mud , a novel set against

Beginning with paint

Exploring Pasquarosa’s home and history By Federica Parretti Originally published in RESTORATION CONVERSATIONS magazine Autumn/Winter 2025 - Issue 8 Pasquarosa, 1913, Still life with flowers and a fan , Civico Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea We passed Tivoli, with its lovely view of the whole plain from the Aniene to the Tiber valleys, dotted with their renowned Roman hills. Then we continued on to Arsoli, amidst nature still groggy from its sleep, which offered unexpect

How does your garden grow?

Women sculptors in a space of their own By Margie MacKinnon Originally published in RESTORATION CONVERSATIONS magazine Autumn/Winter 2025 - Issue 8 Its All Kicking Off Lucy Gregory, ph. Nick Turpin. MARY MARY at theCOLAB/The Artist’s Garden, Temple, London As you exit the Temple tube station, take a few quick turns to the left, then go up a short flight of stairs. You will find yourself in a public space which occupies a prime location in the City of London, overlooking th

The Eye of the Needle: Textile storytelling with artist Cécile Davidovici

An interview by Linda Falcone Originally published in RESTORATION CONVERSATIONS magazine Spring/Summer 2025 - Issue 7 Come autumn 2025,...

John Singer Sargent’s ‘Dollar Princesses’

A fresh look at portraits from the Gilded Age By Margie MacKinnon Originally published in RESTORATION CONVERSATIONS magazine...

Chance Encounters:

Artist and Curator in conversation By Linda Falcone Originally published in Restoration Conversations magazine Issue 7, Spring-Summer...

Carrington: Bloomsbury’s Shooting Star

By MARGIE MACKINNON This article was first published in Restoration Conversations Magazine Issue 7, Spring 2025 View of the exhibition,...

A Spirit of Generosity. Behind the Scenes at The Women’s Art Collection

BY MARGIE MACKINNON This article was first published in Restoration Conversations Magazine Issue 7, Spring 2025 Harriet Loffler,...

With Every Clue You Pursue

Art sleuth and artisan Poiret Masse searches for Violante Siries Cerroti’s ‘voice’ Interview by Linda Falcone Article Source: Restoration...

A radical female perspective: Vanessa Bell at MK Gallery

By Margie MacKinnon Originally published in Restoration Conversations magazine Autumn / Winter 2024 - Issue 6 See the full issue Vanessa...

Art detectives for ‘Violante’

AWA Legacy Fund sees dream unfold by Linda Falcone The article was originally published in Restoration Conversations magazine Issue 06,...

PROJECT. GIRLS IN THE INNOCENTI ARCHIVES (1900-1921): Restoration 2025 - 'Little Meteors'

The Innocenti Institute's Historical Archive, Ph. Marco Badiani, 2025 Little Meteors: The Girls Restoring Tokens at the Innocenti Institute By Linda Falcone This article was first published in Restoration Conversations Magazine Issue 7, Spring 2025 The Innocenti Hospital’s historical archive comprises more than 13,000 documents and objects from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, including ‘tokens’ that parents left with their foundling children, as proof of iden