Painting of the Month – Juliet (Alternative title - The Blue Necklace) After J W Waterhouse 1898
John William Waterhouse is known for depicting beautiful, powerful, and ultimately tragic women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend. This solitary portrayal of Shakespeare’s young star-crossed heroine who strived to express the purity of her love towards Romeo - which was doomed from the start – is perhaps the most famous love story ever written. Juliet is pictured walking alongside a Venetian style canal. Waterhouse apparently made several trips to Italy w
February Newsletter 2020
The month of January has flown by with much of my time spent with John William Waterhouse.! Yes, you read that right. I’m busy recreating some of his most famous paintings, finding the sheer amount of detail he injects into his mythological and romantic paintings both challenging and rewarding. William Waterhouse painted scenes from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem: ‘The Lady of Shalott’, and it’s these I’ve been focusing on. The main figure – a beautiful enchantress often clad in
