Gary Bunt’s work is inspired by British artists, especially painters of the Bloomsbury and St. Ives groups, and he has extensive knowledge of them and their work. It is, however, his own distinctive style that his collectors and admirers have fallen in love with and his paintings feature in collections across the world.⁠ The Sussex landscape provides regular inspiration for Gary’s work. He is always happiest when painting in ‘the shed’ (his studio).⁠ Gary is represented by the Portland Gallery.

‘‘Those are good pigs,’ he said, ‘aren’t they?’⁠ If he had said they were bad pigs I should have agreed with him equally. Their shape meant nothing to me.⁠ ⁠‘Good length,’ he explained, ‘broad in the back and not too much head.’⁠ I strove to see it, but no person can appreciate the points of a pig till he has dwelt long with them. Looking back, I cannot tell at what point I began to know a good pig from a bad one. The farmer’s eye is as subtle as the artist’s.’⁠ Adrian Bell, Corduroy

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Born in 1974, Mark Hearld studied illustration at Glasgow School of Art and then completed an MA in Natural History Illustration at the Royal College of Art. Taking his inspiration from the flora and fauna of the British countryside, he works across a number of mediums, producing limited-edition lithographic and linocut prints, paintings, collages and hand-painted ceramics. He has completed commissions for Faber & Faber, Tate Museums and Walker Books. In 2012 Merrell Books published Mark Hearld’s Work Book – the first book devoted to Mark’s work. For a selection of Mark’s limited-edition prints visit www.stjudesprints.co.uk.

Angela Harding is a painter and printmaker based in Wing, Rutland. She derives her inspiration from the flora and fauna of the British countryside and her work is executed in lino and vinyl, combined with paper-cut stencil and water-based silkscreen printing. She…

‘Tennyson takes you by the hand and gently leads you ... on to Blythburgh, where the ‘loneliest church in Suffolk’ stands on a ‘knoll beside the river [Blyth] in the midst of a great ocean of marsh and heath, brooding graciously over the few cottages that are the pitiable relics of a once wealthy port ... sublime and dramatic’.’ Branwen Lucas on Julian Tennyson’s ‘Suffolk Scene’. Julian, a great grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, hoped to become a writer but was sadly killed in action in 1945.

Bemerton Rectory was the home of the poet George Herbert from 1630 until his death in 1633. When the novelist and poet Vikram Seth visited the house, he loved it so much he ended up buying it himself.⁠ Howard Phipps studied painting and printmaking at the Gloucestershire College of Art. He is probably best known for his drawings and engravings of the chalk downs of Wiltshire and Dorset. Howard was elected a member of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1985.

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‘This is not a history of women’s boarding schools. It’s the funniest book you’ll read all year’ Nicola Shulman

Slightly Foxed Issue 11 (Autumn 2006) 'A Private, Circumspect People'

Well-known for his frank biographies of figures as Augustus John and Lytton Strachey, Michael Holroyd teases out the story . . .

It is for the Brensham trilogy that John Moore is best known. All three books, Portrait of Elmbury, Brensham Village and The Blue Field . . .

My Family & Other Animals | In 1935, the Durrell family sold their house and ‘like a flock of migrating swallows’ fled from the depressing grey damp of an English ...

There have been many memoirs of life among the Bloomsberries, but none more wickedly frank or funny than A Boy at the Hogarth Press . . .

Apart from being memorable reads, our clothbound hardback Slightly Foxed Editions look delightful on the shelves and are highly collectable.

Perfectly designed to curl up with, the Slightly Foxed Editions are highly individual and absorbing reads. The gift of good reading.

This is the home of Slightly Foxed editor Gail Pirkis and, given her excellent literary taste, it's no surprise her interior decorating sense is just as good.

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The Met, c. 1805-10 As we near the end of 2016 and look towards 2017, it's time to think about new historic shoe styles. Yaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!!!! Whenever I start musing on new styles, I take a look at what's missing in the costuming community, what you ladies have been