by Lucille Turner | May 17, 2016 | Art
We take our eyes for granted. How often do we try to imagine what life would be like if we lost our sight? But one aspect of our eyesight we often overlook (sorry) is our peripheral vision. In case you’re wondering what peripheral vision is, try keeping your head...
by Lucille Turner | Apr 23, 2016 | Art
Do you know anyone who is dyslexic? How about Jamie Oliver, Steven Spielberg, Richard Branson? All successful people, and all able to defy what many perceive as a handicap, but which is really just a state of mind, and sometimes an advantageous one. It was around the...
by Lucille Turner | Apr 16, 2016 | Art
Knowing who Mona Lisa was does not answer the questions that persist; if anything, it augments them. In recent years art historians have accepted that the sitter for the Mona Lisa portrait was Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a silk merchant from Florence, but...
by Lucille Turner | Apr 9, 2016 | Art
SLXLM A man of peace, a cynic or in the end, just plain desperate? When I had the lucky break of talking to Martin Kemp, Art Historian and one of the world’s leading experts on the art of Leonardo da Vinci, about the novel I was writing, his reaction...
