Bloomsberry Pie

Love em or loathe them I find the whole Bloomsbury set up absolutely fascinating. Their complex relationships, their desire to be experimental in art and appreciate the work of continental artists and most of all the way their homes and gardens became firmly embedded in their artistic sensibilities.

This is Monks House, home of Virginia Woolf with the art critic Clive Bell, husband of Vanessa Bell, Virginia's sister, and Vanessa's daughter Angelica from her relationship with the artist Duncan Grant.













Now to Charleston, home of Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Maynard Keynes and Duncan Grant.











Vanessa with Angelica who believed for years she was the daughter of Clive Bell, she was in fact daughter of Duncan Grant, a confirmed homsexual and was to marry one of her father's lovers - Vanessa and Duncan being quite unable to be honest with her and put a stop to it.




Vanessa at Charleston painted by Duncan.




The fresco scheme devised by Duncan and Vanessa at Berwick Church








Angelica posing as Mary.

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