🖼️ ‘Hero Lighting the Beacon for Leander’, Edward Burne-Jones, 1877.

🖼️ ‘Hero’, Edward Burne-Jones.

🖼️ ‘Hero Awaiting the Return of Leander’, Evelyn De Morgan, 1885.

This talk accompanies a new exhibition curated by Suzanne for 2025-26 in Winchester.

Dr. Suzanne Fagence Cooper is a writer, broadcaster and curator with expertise in 19th and 20th century British art and culture.

Throughout their lives, they looked for ways to connect the domestic with their gardens, as they constructed beautiful patterns from honeysuckle, and roses. In his lecture, ‘Art and the Beauty of the Earth’, William urged his audience to take responsibility for their environment.

The designs created by William Morris and his daughter May abound with greenery and growing things. Orchards, hedgerows, kitchen gardens and wild woods all provided inspiration for their art and lectures.

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From one poet to another, we think Christina Rossetti and Taylor Swift would get along, have lots of feminist thoughts to share and of course a lengthy discussion of her ‘Tortured Poets Department’ album.

🖼️ ‘Christina Rossetti in a Rage’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Wightwick Manor & Gardens.