Merton Madonna and Child

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Madonna and Child, Merton College chapel, modern sculpture, Oxford, Peter Eugene Ball

by sculptor, Peter Eugene Ball

Merton College’s Mighty Organ

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Brahms, Merton College, Mozart, organ, Oxford, recital

A privilege to hear it booming out Mozart, Brahms, Viner etc

Organist was David Goode. #mertoncollegechoir YouTube has the video. Candia

in the audience, clapping away!

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Coronation Weekend in Oxford

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coronation, crows, Oxford, Rhodes House

Everyone and everything getting in on the act!

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Copy of Eric Gill Station of the Cross

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Easter, Eric Gill, flagellation, Oxford, sculptor, St Mary the Virgin, Stations of the Cross

…in St Mary the Virgin, Oxford. Original in Westminster Cathedral.

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Gormley Drama

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Anthony Gormley, black and white photography, bodycast, dramatic skies, Oxford, public sculpture, rooftop scupture

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Martyr’s Wreath, Oxford

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burning at stake, Cranmer, freedom of individual, Latimer &Ridley, Oxford, religious persecution

Seen this week at the Martyrs’ Memorial.

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Accordion Book of Theseus and the Minotaur

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Ashmolean, Dionysius, labyrinth, minotaur, Naxos, Oxford, Pasiphae, Theseus

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.

Azzawi Notebooks @ The Ashmolean

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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.

Pre-Raphaelites

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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

Punts at Magdalen Bridge

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Magdalen Bridge, Oxford, punts, Summer

Acrylics by Candia Dixon-Stuart