A moment of Monday calm… This dreamy still life, by Bloomsbury Group artist Vanessa Bell, features three aesthetically pleasing vessels and three delicate Iceland poppies illuminated by natural light. The work appears in This Dark Country, a new book by Rebecca Birrell exploring “the desires and ambitions of 20th-century women artists through their still life paintings”, as Chloë Ashby writes for Elephant, which reveal their own lives to be anything but still. Read the more about the book here.
