Restoration Conversations - Magazine Issue 6

Vanessa Bell, Molly Peacock, Louise Bourgeouis at the Novecento and more...

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Autumn 2024

As we move towards winter, this issue of Restoration Conversations brings a splash of garden colour, with stunning works by contemporary botanical painter Marieluise Bantel, in conversation with the British Museum’s impressive oeuvre of floral works by Mary Delaney, whose fascinating story flows from Molly Peacock’s pen in The Paper Garden.

Federica Parretti’s recounting of twentieth-century painter Lola Costa and her garden estate, Il Palmerino, re-conjures a reality we’ve always known: women of all ages and eras find their power among flowers. The varied exhibitions featured in this issue, with their wealth of insights and impressions – from Christian Levett’s newly opened FAMM museum in Mougins, to the silent ‘Revelations’ of Sant’Orsola’s ‘unconstructed’ exhibition venue, also provide ‘fertile mind-space’ for growing. Louise Bourgeois’ late works at the Museo degli Innocenti and Museo Novecento or Vanessa Bell’s ‘A World of Form and Colour’ at MK Gallery – with her art chock-full of ‘Charleston brightness’ – constitute another kind of garden, where paintings and gouaches grow as plentiful as plants. Our ‘Personal Reflections’ series continues with Glynis Owen’s heartfelt story of her tribute in bronze to cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Enjoy the issue!

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