The Words & Pictures Book Club

“Warpaint” by Alicia Foster

Monday 13^th August 2018, 2-4pm

Gleneagles Tea Rooms

Join us for the Words & Pictures book club where we will be reading and discussing novels in which visual art and artists are relevant to the narrative. At our August meeting we’ll look at Alicia Foster’s “Warpaint” & art-works from World War II by four women artists: Evelyn Dunbar, Grace Golden, Laura Knight & Isabel Rawsthorne.

Dunbar, Evelyn Mary; Portrait of an Air Woman; Royal Air Force Museum; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/portrait-of-an-air-woman-135814

Alicia Foster’s “Warpaint” (2014) is published by Penguin

Image: Evelyn Dunbar “Portrait of an Air Woman” (c.1943; Royal Air Force Museum; c/o artuk.org)

Words & Pictures meets monthly 2-4pm in the glorious surrounds of the Gleneagles Tea Rooms – where there is tea and cake a-plenty!

All welcome but please email me to reserve your place: chasingtales@rocketmail.com

Gleneagles Guesthouse
5-6 Clifftown Parade
Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1DP

About TheCommonViewer

Independent Researcher: gently exploring "The Art & Artists of Russia (1850s-present) currently, and please see the A History of Art in England series; looking forward to discussing "British Art Groups (1930s)" when we can have live group meetings again! Twitter: @TheCommonViewer

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