Ruth Leon recommends…Working From Home – National Gallery

Working From Home – National Gallery

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This is one of the Talks videos made by the National Gallery’s curators during lockdown.  Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, then stuck at home herself, away from her place of work in Trafalgar Square, makes us focus on the interiors in some of her favourite paintings.

​She is looking at the ordinary, the everyday actions of the people in her choices, like this little girl eating breakfast. Now we can once again go to the Gallery and see these paintings in person, but when we couldn’t, they gave us a feeling of calm and patience that we sorely lacked.

How lovely for us that through the eyes of someone who really knows about painting we can appreciate details we might never have noticed and that their willingness to share what they know made lockdown bearable.

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