22 Wednesday Feb 2023
Posted in Animals, art, Literature, mythology, Relationships, Romance, Supernatural
Pasiphae and the White Bull; the Minotaur and sacrificial victim,
Theseus in background;Ariadne with sword and twine; death of
the Minotaur; Theseus departs for Naxos with Ariadne; Dionysius
gets the girl!
All acrylic and ink by Candia Dixon-Stuart- after going to the Knossos
exhibition at The Ashmolean, Oxford.
17 Friday Feb 2023
Posted in art, Social Comment
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Ashmolean, Azzawi, Baghdad, Chagall, dafatir, Iraqi artist, Matisse, Mosul, notebooks, Oxford, Picasso, poetry and art, political comment
First saw this Iraqi artist in Doha, about 7 years ago.
Had the pleasure of seeing more of his concertina-ed poetic notebooks
today, in Oxford.
Matisse, Picasso and Chagall influences. amongst others.
27 Sunday Nov 2022
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Ashmolean, Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, King Arthur, Millais, Oxford, Pre-Raphaelites, Ruskin
From the closing exhibition at The Ashmolean, Oxford
Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart
21 Saturday Mar 2020
From ‘The Young Rembrandt’ exhibition @ The Ashmolean, Oxford.
20 Friday Mar 2020
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Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart
19 Thursday Mar 2020
18 Wednesday Mar 2020
Posted in art, Personal, Photography, Religion
For your delectation. Photos by Candia
17 Tuesday Mar 2020
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Managed to see this before self-isolation. So, will post all my
photos in groups of 6 or so, in order that you can all see the
delights that may not be available now for some time.
17 Tuesday Dec 2019
Posted in Architecture, art, Personal, Photography, Summer
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Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart
14 Thursday Nov 2019
No such thing as a free lunch! Bread for all – in exchange for votes.
Photo by Candia from the Pompeii Exhibition @ The Ashmolean
Candia Comes Clean 