Flamingo and Carnation Tiles
"This is truly one of De Morgan's most accomplished designs" says Director of the De Morgan Museum, Sarah Hardy, in this week's blog. [...]
The Art of Music
Next time you're in a gallery or even just scrolling through Twitter, take two minutes to listen to the painting. The rustle of [...]
Discover the Victorian Interior in this week’s blog
De Morgan Volunteer Sonja investigates the ideas behind Victorian interior design in this week's blog. She allows us to put the De Morgans' artworks into [...]
New Acquisitions go on display at Wightwick Manor for First Time Ever
Probably produced by William De Morgan around the time he was an art student in the late 1850s and early 1860s, these sketches reveal much [...]
The Representation of the City in Art
The Victorian era was one of considerable and impactful change. Industrialisation powered the expansion of cities predominantly through rural to urban migration, leading to accelerated [...]
Artworks ripe with fruit and veg
By volunteer Louise Reasbeck From Roman “Unswept Floor” mosaics, through apples grasped by infants in Dutch masterpieces, to familiar but indistinct citrus shapes in impressionist [...]
Representation of Grief
Volunteer Sonja Seear discusses how Victorian painters created emotive pictures which express grief. Sonja has responded to some of the picture on display in our [...]
Syrian Artist of Hope: Meet Vian Kolhussein
We asked aspiring artist Vian Kolhussein to create paintings in response to Evelyn De Morgan's paintings of the First World War. She created a beautiful [...]
Volunteering with De Morgan: A Trip to Simon Gillespie’s Studio
Volunteer James Cox accompanied De Morgan Curator Sarah Hardy on a visit to Simon Gillespie's studio to learn more about picture conservation. Artemisia Gentileschi in [...]
Sunflowers and the Aesthetic Movement
Our volunteer Louise delves into the history and significant of this yellow summer flower 'The Sunflowers' by Van Gogh (1888) The showy sunflower [...]