2026 - REVERIE COLLECTION
“Creative ideas seem to constantly be floating about, in the very air I breathe. When an idea becomes eager enough to manifest itself, it tends to show up in my mind in coded form. It then becomes my task to un-code them, like dialing an old radio and finding the right frequency. My aim is for the creative idea to continue its journey through my painting, hence, rather than drawing the viewer into the painting, I would hope my work expands outwards into the space it lives in, like a perfume that slowly fills a room and settles into every corner."
MARIA SPARTALI STILLMAN - 200 x 270 cm
“A Ballad of Dreamland”
I hid my heart in a nest of roses,
Out of the sun’s way, hidden apart;
In a softer bed then the soft white snow’s is,
Under the roses I hid my heart.
Why would it sleep not? why should it start,
When never a leaf of the rose-tree stirred?
What made sleep flutter his wings and part?
Only the song of a secret bird.”
MARIE-SOPHIE GERMAIN - 160 x 140 cm
“Geometry is the science of extension and motion, or simply of extension; for everything that exists in this universe, either simultaneously or successively, has extension as the defining characteristic of its existence. Space encompasses all points, all places, all boundaries of the physical world; motion traverses this space, is applied to it, measured by it, and seems to assimilate itself to it; time is marked by the succession of things, subsisting from their beginning until...their end”
CATHERINE DIOR - 190 x 200 cm
“Malgré la fenêtre ouverte dans la chambre au long congé, l’arôme de la rose reste lié au souffle qui fut là. Nous sommes une fois encore sans expérience antérieure, nouveaux venus, épris. La rose ! Le champs de ses allées éventerait même la hardiesse de la mort. Nulle grille qui s’oppose. Le désir resurgit, mal de nos fronts évaporés.Celui qui marche sur la terre des pluies n’a rien à redouter de l’épine, dans les lieux finis ou hostiles. Mais s’il s’arrête et se recueille, malheur à lui ! Blessé au vif, il vole en cendres, archer repris par la beauté.”
FRANNÇOISE BASSEPORTE - 180 x 140 cm
“Des avalanches d’or du vieil azur, au jour
Premier et de la neige éternelle des astres
Jadis tu détachas les grands calices pour
La terre jeune encore et vierge de désastres,
Le glaïeul fauve, avec les cygnes au col fin,
Et ce divin laurier des âmes exilées
Vermeil comme le pur orteil du séraphin
Que rougit la pudeur des aurores foulées,”
GEORGE SAND - 200 x 130 cm
“...Un matin qu’il passait auprès d’une plate-
bande du Jardin des Plantes, il vit une fougère exotique
qui lui sembla si belle dans son feuillage et si gracieuse
dans son port, qu’il lui arriva ce qui m’est arrivé souvent
dans ma vie; il devint amoureux d’une plante et n’eut plus
de rêves et de désirs que pour elle. ”
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR - 200 x 130 cm
“Je suis restée un long moment sur le balcon. De mon sixième, je découvre un grand morceau de Paris, l’envol des pigeons au-dessus des toits d’ardoise, et ces faux pots de fleurs qui sont des cheminées. Rouges ou jaunes, des grues – cinq, neuf, dix, j’en compte dix – barrent le ciel de leurs bras de fer ; à droite, mon regard se heurte à une haute muraille percée de petits trous : un immeuble neuf ; j’aperçois aussi des tours prismatiques, gratte-ciel fraîchement bâtis. Depuis quand le terre-plein du boulevard Edgar-Quinet est-il devenu un parking ? La jeunesse de ce paysage me saute aux yeux : et pourtant je ne me rappelle pas l’avoir...”
SYLVIA PANKHURST - 190 x 200 cm
“You cannot educate the mass”
How often that phrase is heard in the working class movement; and what a cruel blasphemy against the human mind is contained in those cruel words!
The facts of history expose the falsity of the silly saying, which comes with peculiarly ill grace from those who profess to be scientific workers for a Communist Millennium in which all shall be cultured, equal co-workers for the Commonweal.
Nevertheless it is often precisely amongst those Socialists and Communists who make the loudest boast that they are scientific students and workers for the cause, that the evil saying is oftenest heard and repeated parrot-like.”
EMILIE LOUISE FLÖGE - 190 x 170 cm
“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.”
CHRISTABEL PANKHURST - 200 x 170 cm
“Suffrage for Women”
Therefore, every patriotic and public spirited woman wishes to take part in controlling the actions of our legislators. For forty years, this reasonable claim has been laid before Parliament in a quiet and patient manner. Meetings have been held and petitions signed in favour of votes for women but failure has been the result. The reason of this failure is that women have not been able to bring pressure to bear upon the government and government moves only in response to pressure. Men got the vote, not by persuading but by alarming the legislators. Similar vigorous measures must be adopted by women. The excesses of men must be avoided, yet great determination must be shown. The militant methods of the women today are clearly thought out and vigorously pursued. They consist in protesting at public meetings and in marching to the House of Commons in procession.”
CRISTINA TRIVULZIO DI BELGIOIOSO - 206 x 206 cm
“...La democrazia, ossia un governo al quale tutte le classi del popolo debbono prender parte , e le cui più alte dignità possano, senza che alcuno ne faccia le maraviglie, toccare al figlio d’un pezzente (quand’ anche questi sia morto pezzente, e quindi senza lasciare un soldo al figlio), è questa, a parer mio, la sola forma di governo che meriti y il nome di repubblica, e per ottenere la quale torni il conto di arrischiare una rivoluzione e di rovesciare l’ordine esistente. Ma per costituire un governo democratico non basta il volerlo; è necessario che la popolazione intera abbia ricevuto una certa educazione, e ne abbia tratto profitto. Ora questa educazione di una intera popolazione non è opera che si compisca in un giorno. Conviene , a cagione d’esempio, che ogni cittadino possa dall’oggi al domani essere chiamato ad esercitare un impiego o una carica qualunque, a riempire l’ufficio sia di giudice, di legislatore o di amministratore senza che il corso dei pubblici affari e quindi il paese abbia a soffrirne. Conviene che il povero posto in posizione and I di arricchirsi col mancare al proprio dovere, non sia tentato di fallire. Conviene che la società non misuri le dimostrazioni del suo rispetto e della sua considerazione verso i cittadini agli esterni ed immeritati favori della fortuna; conviene che il popolo tutto conosca i suoi diritti e i suoi doveri; che all’ osservanza degli uni e degli altri ei volga ogni suo sforzo; che i titoli, le ricchezze, gli onori siano senza pregio agli occhi di tutti, che alcuna distinzione non esista fra le classi; soltanto fra gli individui quella dei diversi caratteri , e del diverso pregio in cui li tiene a ragione la società...
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