I am incredibly excited. I can't sleep and just finished a beautiful novel on the life of Edward Burne-Jones which I highly recommend.
My first painting for my new collection is to be a small portrait of Joan of Arc in the Tudor style. I know a lot about her life already but if I am going to add a rich symbolic layering to the painting I will need to know her story down to its tiniest details. To that end I have just downloaded Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words to my kindle. How fascinating to hear her own interpretation of her life's work translated from her own trial transcripts. There is always so much that can colour an authors representation of their subject and I hope that this way of looking at Joan's life will give me a kind of insight that I just couldn't attain from any other source.
