The Institute of the Trinity –
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My imaginary friends
My first imaginary friend was a bluebird, directly lifted from a favourite storybook, with the power of speech and flight, much needed in large families. Another was a baby although I had a baby sister. This imaginary one was … Read More
The visible artist – the violet hour
‘At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea, The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights Her stove, and lays out food in tins.’ On the 7th April I’ll … Read More
The anchorhold -1971-2021
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In 1971 I was a teenager raging at the front door and sneaking in by the back door. I caught buses in dark bus stations and lived near owly fields and lanes. I took lifts, to stretch out moment between … Read More
Nick’s Gift reviewed by Paul Green – author of ‘The Qliphoth’
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NICK’S GIFT Review by Paul Green Becky Nuttall’s first collection is a delight to read. The poems range from vivid but unsentimental epiphanies of a sixties childhood to powerful evocations of a seventies adolescence in all its … Read More
My imaginary friend – intertextuality, Dadart and a pandemic
I inherited my father’s art school portfollio, letters written to his closest friend, poems, lists and journals. I have the lovely poems he wrote for me, his funny postcards and random letters. I have disposed of … Read More
‘Memento mori – love, I love’ Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2020 submission
“Momento mori – love, I love’
“Immaculate conceptualism and a Ruskin ***k”
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Conceptualism was the only theory available at my art school in 1973. Found objects, post modern irony and an ability to not stick around too long with an idea were highly marked. A desire to paint like Turner was … Read More
Horses: Winged and White, Wine and Miracles
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The White Horses of Tarquinia In 1966 we spent a summer in Italy; one quest was to find the white horses of Tarquinia. It became a bit of a mission. I have now found out they were … Read More
Nick’s Gift
He liked boys, he kissed me anyway. I had the taste of two lipsticks in my mouth, his named peachy pink and mine fuchsia gloss. Baby blue, shimmer cream, I blushed. Willingly I would’ve shed my clothes for him … Read More
Heard the one about the gynaecologist and the artist?
Once I was a young artist raised in the sixties and living the seventies. To the art school came the man raised in the twenties and living the Reformation; he is the assessor. He sallies forth into the studio and … Read More