By Chris Bell
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Customer tags: 1914, art, lytton strachey, henry lamb, vale of health, apprec, bloomsbury group, hampstead, 1 march, painting, london, portrait
Review & Description
“I’ve not been well. Too much noise in my head, a kind of teetering, skittering feeling as though everything’s about to come crashing down. I’m in need of a different sort of distraction; something grounded, with less noise than the internet. The look of one of the trees in the park opposite my study in the summer light; that occulting of sun on leaves stirring in the breeze — so complex; such a manyness of brightnesses and shade — reminds me there is something larger than us in a way my computer cannot, and I need to be reminded of that.” A short story about a painting that has a life of its own... The Vale of Health is a part of London's Hampstead Heath, supposedly so called because the area was spared by the Great Plague of 1665-1666. This Chris Bell short story was inspired by a Henry Lamb portrait of the writer Lytton Strachey, a man who was something of a stranger to good health, in spite of the fact that he sat for Lamb in his Vale of Health studio over a period of several years. Henry Lamb’s portrait of Lytton Strachey can be viewed online at the Tate Collection’s website. Read more
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