His deserted landscapes, most frequently staged in the winter, are charged with feelings of time passing, of death, of the human condition, and of the loneliness and smallness of human beings before ...
RECENTLY, I fell in love with and bought a little oil painting online—a Swedish seascape in a black frame—to fit into the decor in my bedroom. It was somehow luminous but melancholy. And that set off ...
It was a sweet and melancholy lament, chosen by Lady Sarah, but has a bitter-sweet title, The Desperate Struggle of the Bird - perhaps, in some way, representing the Princess's spirit and verve.