Thursday, 27 December 2018

Sister Wendy Beckett RIP

My latest piece for Artlyst is an appreciation of the life and writing of Sister Wendy Beckett who has died aged 88:

'I first encountered Sister Wendy Beckett in the pages of ‘Modern Painters’, the art magazine founded by the art critic Peter Fuller which ‘celebrated the critical imagination; stood up for aesthetic values and had a particular focus on British art.’

An early piece would have been a review of an exhibition by Norman Adams in which she suggested that a mystical sense of oneness was making itself visible in his work. In ‘The Way of the Cross and the Paradise Garden’ she noted a radiance of joy conveyed by ‘angels somersaulting through a dazzle of colour bars, crosses of light, that proclaims the marvellous oneness of the Death of Christ and His Rising.’

My other Artlyst articles and interviews are:
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The Civil Wars - I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.

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