Candy Bedworth

Candy's remote, rain soaked farmhouse clings to a steep-sided valley in rural Wales. She raises cats, chickens and children with varying degrees of success. Art, literature and Lakrids licorice save her sanity on a daily basis.

Stories By Candy Bedworth

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Allegories of Autumn – A Top Ten of Sensational Symbolic Artworks
By Candy BedworthSeptember 22, 2020
What does Autumn mean to you? Traditionally it meant the abundance of the harvest, a celebration of ripeness and maturity. Museums and galleries are full of paintings which pay tribute to this theme showing the Allegories...
Bodies And Erotic Art

Tattoos – Ancient Ink to Modern Celebrity
By Candy BedworthSeptember 13, 2020
Love them or loathe them, tattoos are a global phenomenon. Inserting pigment under the skin for decorative or ritualistic purposes has been around since prehistoric times. Tattooing is a close relative of scarification and piercing, and...
19th Century

The Dazzling Davies Sisters and Their Impressionist Art
By Candy BedworthJuly 29, 2020
The Davies sisters grew up in a remote corner of Victorian Wales. They were religious, teetotal and never married. But these demure young women, with no previous art knowledge, managed to gather together probably the most...
20th century

Chiharu Shiota’s Installation Art: Drawing in the Air
By Candy BedworthJuly 2, 2020
Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota creates monumental artworks that immerse the visitor in a tangled web of their own imagination. Delicate yarn installations, filling a gallery space, move you from creation to death, and almost impossibly, beyond.
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Claude Cahun. A Surrealist Queer Prophet
By Candy BedworthJune 15, 2020
Claude Cahun famously said “Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.” Photographer, writer and political activist, Claude Cahun was born in 1894 in Nantes, France into an...
Ancient

The Intriguing Tale of Shocking Sheela Na Gig and Its Art References
By Candy BedworthMay 29, 2020
Everyone remembers their first sighting of a Sheela Na Gig. Wandering around an old church, breathing in the architecture, the history, the silence. And then – that looks like, oh, yes, it is – a naked...
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Crowning the May Queen in Art
By Candy BedworthMay 13, 2020
The May Queen is the personification of springtime. Crowned with fresh flowers, she leads her people to the Maypole for fun and frolicking. A maiden represents the fruitful bounty of the coming year, at the moment...
Art State of Mind

The Goldfinch: Singing Across Time
By Candy BedworthApril 8, 2020
See the lonely little bird, trapped in a situation over which it has no control. Chained, isolated. Sound familiar? In these strange times we need even stranger stories. Read on about the goldfinch. When I say...
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Evelyn De Morgan, the Pre-Raphaelite Sister You May Not Know
By Candy BedworthMarch 14, 2020
Welcome to the work of Evelyn De Morgan. Jewel rich colors, gorgeously draped figures and a feminist message – what’s not to like?! But why is her name so unknown? Art history scholars regularly pay homage...
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500 years of Raphael. Exhibitions in 2020
By Candy BedworthFebruary 11, 2020
He was sometimes known as Il divino – the divine one – for his expert mastery of space and proportion. And this year, in the 500th anniversary of his death, you can get up close and...