Alixe Bovey
@alixebovey.bsky.social
Art historian & medievalist; under-appreciated plant enthusiast, uptight watercolourist. 🇨🇦✍️📚🌱. Insta: @alixebove
PS please share with anyone who might benefit/be interested!
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
PS please share with anyone who might benefit/be interested!
Still haven’t really posted/engaged much with it but enjoying the general lack of toxicity!
June 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Still haven’t really posted/engaged much with it but enjoying the general lack of toxicity!
Ah this made my day - glad the giant snails still going strong on BBC Sounds 🐌🤺
June 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Ah this made my day - glad the giant snails still going strong on BBC Sounds 🐌🤺
Glorious - I’d say it was Edenic but images of Eden never include topiary tools
April 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Glorious - I’d say it was Edenic but images of Eden never include topiary tools
Startling too in view of your next post, re UKRI ‘kickstarting economic growth’. Events in Dundee will kick economic growth to the kerb in that great city, no?
March 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Startling too in view of your next post, re UKRI ‘kickstarting economic growth’. Events in Dundee will kick economic growth to the kerb in that great city, no?
I don’t think I follow your analogy. Writing is to thinking, reading, and communicating ≠ SLR is to phone camera. (Also, are everyone’s phone snaps good enough?)
March 12, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I don’t think I follow your analogy. Writing is to thinking, reading, and communicating ≠ SLR is to phone camera. (Also, are everyone’s phone snaps good enough?)
Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love (Grove Press, 1998), 71
February 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love (Grove Press, 1998), 71
[Scholarship is] where we’re nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it’s for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn’t matter where on what, it’s the light itself, against the darkness
February 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
[Scholarship is] where we’re nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it’s for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn’t matter where on what, it’s the light itself, against the darkness
Why indeed. Painful to hear Michael Buchanan reporting more terrible stories on PM today, this time about faulty antenatal testing.
February 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Why indeed. Painful to hear Michael Buchanan reporting more terrible stories on PM today, this time about faulty antenatal testing.
Such a wonderful book plate. I’m sorry to read this news.
January 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Such a wonderful book plate. I’m sorry to read this news.
The show is on til 16 Feb. A great description and images of the object - Paris, c 1325x50, is on the @vamuseum collection’s website (‘Storming the Castle of Love’) accession no. 1617-1855). collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O120162...
#medievalart #drawing #castleoflove #courtauld #medievalmultiplied
#medievalart #drawing #castleoflove #courtauld #medievalmultiplied
Storming on the Castle of Love | Unknown | V&A Explore The Collections
Mirror case, ivory, the Storming on the Castle of Love, France (Paris), second quarter of the fourteenth century
collections.vam.ac.uk
January 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The show is on til 16 Feb. A great description and images of the object - Paris, c 1325x50, is on the @vamuseum collection’s website (‘Storming the Castle of Love’) accession no. 1617-1855). collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O120162...
#medievalart #drawing #castleoflove #courtauld #medievalmultiplied
#medievalart #drawing #castleoflove #courtauld #medievalmultiplied
I did this clutch of drawings over a few days, experimenting with scale and focusing on different kinds of detail. It was an interesting thing to do: reminded me that drawing forces a pace of observation that runs completely counter to our high-rate-glimpse culture.
January 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I did this clutch of drawings over a few days, experimenting with scale and focusing on different kinds of detail. It was an interesting thing to do: reminded me that drawing forces a pace of observation that runs completely counter to our high-rate-glimpse culture.