A completely new creative workshop in celebration of Mid-Summer. Join me on Saturday 27 June among the hops and orchards of Brenley Farm, Faversham to make embossed foil decorations. Make hanging decorations, garlands or cards. All materials, Cake & Cordial included haggytea.com/workshops
One of the exquisite wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, the illustrator of Through the Woods by HE Bates, which is the subject of this week's post.
open.substack.com/pub/stillske...
New on the blog today, I've written about some of my favourite COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS from the shelves.
Featuring books by Rumer Godden, Jean Rhys, L. P. Hartley and more! #BookSky 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/c...
#RIP David Hockney.
This glorious exhibition is currently running at the Serpentine’s North Gallery. It’s a beautiful, life-affirming show, the very highest of recommendations. #Art #ArtSky #DavidHockney
This is a post I’ve been meaning to put together for a while, a celebration of some of my favourite novels in which the dark realities of the adult world begin to impinge on the innocence of childh…
My take on The Tortoise and the Hare (1954) by Elizabeth Jenkins. Hoping that (having just finished Anita Brookner) Hermione Lee might write her biography next.
Deborah Vass
Deborah Vass
‘…These things never die out. You can pay and pay but you never get rid of it. You think you’ve buried it all in the past but there’s someone knows somewhere, there’s a record kept somewhere, nothing’s ever wiped out.’ #BookSky 💙📚 #CeliaDale
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/o...
The acclaimed illustrator, Krystyna Turska, won the Kate Greenaway prize in 1972, and yet only a few bare facts remain of her life. This post is about my search for her. open.substack.com/pub/stillske...
For the past few weeks, my garden has been my refuge. This post began as a search for paintings of women in gardens which led me to Roger Fry, Jean Cooke and The Secret Garden. It became a reflection on how gardens can become places of refuge in difficult times. open.substack.com/pub/stillske...
JacquiWine
JacquiWine
JacquiWine
Over the past few years, Celia Dale has become one of my favourite rediscovered authors, largely thanks to Daunt’s reissues of her darkly compelling stories of suburban deception, A Helping Hand, S…
jacquiwine.wordpress.com
First look at the JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER exhibition at Tate Britain. Lots of interesting artworks to see, blissfully cool in the gallery. I’ll be going back for another visit! #Art #ArtSky #London
An abundance of colour at the Serpentine’s DAVID HOCKNEY exhibition today! #Art #ArtSky
(It’s free to view, but you’ll need to book in advance.) #DavidHockney
