Gavin Cologne-Brookes
@cologneg.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor, author of books on William Styron, Joyce Carol Oates, and Bruce Springsteen. Portraits from Paris (LSU Press, 2025).
This portrait of Bruce Springsteen is on loan display in the Vere Harmsworth Library, Rothermere American Insitute, University of Oxford - @raioxford.bsky.social - alongside portraits of Arthur Miller, William Styron & Joyce Carol Oates.
November 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This portrait of Bruce Springsteen is on loan display in the Vere Harmsworth Library, Rothermere American Insitute, University of Oxford - @raioxford.bsky.social - alongside portraits of Arthur Miller, William Styron & Joyce Carol Oates.
Enjoyable panel on memoir with Catharine Savage Brosman at the Louisiana Book Festival November 1.
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Enjoyable panel on memoir with Catharine Savage Brosman at the Louisiana Book Festival November 1.
I took the Greyhound all over the US 1979-85 & occasionally up to 1995, so a roundtrip from New Orleans to Baton Rouge this past weekend was a dose of nostalgia.
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I took the Greyhound all over the US 1979-85 & occasionally up to 1995, so a roundtrip from New Orleans to Baton Rouge this past weekend was a dose of nostalgia.
Bloody hell: best year ever for our garden apples. Branches touching the grass. . . "and there may be two or three / Apples that I didn't pick upon some bough. / But I am done with apple-picking now." Robert Frost.
September 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Bloody hell: best year ever for our garden apples. Branches touching the grass. . . "and there may be two or three / Apples that I didn't pick upon some bough. / But I am done with apple-picking now." Robert Frost.
Joyce Carol Oates (2010). This oil portrait is based on how joycecaroloates.bsky.social was when we had an onstage conversation in Chicago as part of Story Week 2010. The painting is currently on display at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, @raioxford.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Joyce Carol Oates (2010). This oil portrait is based on how joycecaroloates.bsky.social was when we had an onstage conversation in Chicago as part of Story Week 2010. The painting is currently on display at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, @raioxford.bsky.social
Arthur Miller (2009). Standing outside his home in Roxbury, Connecticut in the summer 1990, he's holding a copy of his autobiography, Timebends. This oil portrait is currently on display at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.
August 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Arthur Miller (2009). Standing outside his home in Roxbury, Connecticut in the summer 1990, he's holding a copy of his autobiography, Timebends. This oil portrait is currently on display at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.
Tango, Buenos Aires (2016)
August 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Tango, Buenos Aires (2016)
My portrait of painter, Richard Ewen, an American who settled in Wiltshire. I inherited his easel.
August 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My portrait of painter, Richard Ewen, an American who settled in Wiltshire. I inherited his easel.
Paris Métro (2023)
August 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Paris Métro (2023)
Bouquiniste (2025)
August 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Bouquiniste (2025)
October in the Tuileries (2023)
August 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
October in the Tuileries (2023)
@lsupress.bsky.social have included a monochrome reproduction of this painting, "Art Appreciation," in Portraits from Paris: School & Travel Remembered from the City of Light.
July 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
@lsupress.bsky.social have included a monochrome reproduction of this painting, "Art Appreciation," in Portraits from Paris: School & Travel Remembered from the City of Light.
Our cat, Socrates, died aged 21 in April. In youth he was a remarkable leaper. Later he was arthritic, deaf, and poor-sighted, but remained philosophical.
July 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Our cat, Socrates, died aged 21 in April. In youth he was a remarkable leaper. Later he was arthritic, deaf, and poor-sighted, but remained philosophical.
Bonjour Bluesky. I'm visiting locations featuring in Portraits from Paris: School & Travel Remembered from the City of Light (lsupress.bluesky.social 2025) - here the Tuileries & Musée d'Orsay. It's also about how 1970s boarding made me an oil painter. "Away to School" is reproduced in the book.
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Bonjour Bluesky. I'm visiting locations featuring in Portraits from Paris: School & Travel Remembered from the City of Light (lsupress.bluesky.social 2025) - here the Tuileries & Musée d'Orsay. It's also about how 1970s boarding made me an oil painter. "Away to School" is reproduced in the book.
The @lsupress.bsky.social virtual book launch for Portraits from Paris will take place on 26 June. Please see the LSU Press Facebook page for details.
May 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The @lsupress.bsky.social virtual book launch for Portraits from Paris will take place on 26 June. Please see the LSU Press Facebook page for details.
Thank you to all who came to the PV of Paris Paintings on 6 March. The paintings are on display until 30 March.
March 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Thank you to all who came to the PV of Paris Paintings on 6 March. The paintings are on display until 30 March.
Today was a blue sky autumn day in Wiltshire, threaded with gold.
November 20, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Today was a blue sky autumn day in Wiltshire, threaded with gold.
Recalling an afternoon with Eugène Delacroix, reading his journal at his house in Place de Furstemburg, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. No one else was there, just the two of us.
November 18, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Recalling an afternoon with Eugène Delacroix, reading his journal at his house in Place de Furstemburg, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. No one else was there, just the two of us.
Congratulations to my one-time colleague, & most ethereal of portraits, Samantha Harvey, winner of the Booker Prize for her wonderful novel, Orbital. For the portrait, I placed her in Sainte-Chapelle, which she described as her "favourite place in the world."
November 18, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Congratulations to my one-time colleague, & most ethereal of portraits, Samantha Harvey, winner of the Booker Prize for her wonderful novel, Orbital. For the portrait, I placed her in Sainte-Chapelle, which she described as her "favourite place in the world."
I'm near the end of Barry Walsh's brilliant second novel and will finish it after pommes à l'huile and a pression. It's a wonderfully evocative of 1960s Pimlico but the designers have done a fine job in blending the typeface of the novel's title with that of Brasserie Lipp.
November 18, 2024 at 10:51 AM
I'm near the end of Barry Walsh's brilliant second novel and will finish it after pommes à l'huile and a pression. It's a wonderfully evocative of 1960s Pimlico but the designers have done a fine job in blending the typeface of the novel's title with that of Brasserie Lipp.
Portraits of Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Bruce Springsteen and William Styron in the Vere Harmsworth Library of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. The Springsteen and Styron portraits feature on the covers of American Lonesome (2018) and Rereading William Styron (2014).
November 18, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Portraits of Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Bruce Springsteen and William Styron in the Vere Harmsworth Library of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. The Springsteen and Styron portraits feature on the covers of American Lonesome (2018) and Rereading William Styron (2014).
How a book began: in a faculty meeting in 1996 I doodled this first step toward Dark Eyes on America: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates (LSU Press 2005). Perusing her papers at
Syracuse University in 1997 I discovered that JCO is a prolific doodler, mostly of faces.
Syracuse University in 1997 I discovered that JCO is a prolific doodler, mostly of faces.
November 18, 2024 at 10:42 AM
How a book began: in a faculty meeting in 1996 I doodled this first step toward Dark Eyes on America: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates (LSU Press 2005). Perusing her papers at
Syracuse University in 1997 I discovered that JCO is a prolific doodler, mostly of faces.
Syracuse University in 1997 I discovered that JCO is a prolific doodler, mostly of faces.