Hello! Today I'm joined by Jannah and Isabella of Art Dating Club. They are fabulous new friends of mine from London, where we hosted our own joint event together. They're two bright, kind, talented young women who joined me to discuss to dating scene, their experience starting and growing a rotating event, and their own creative work and how they find time for it. Follow Jannah here Follow Isabella here Follow Art Dating Club here

Melancholia and Isherwood Musings New Years Eve Party I, Francis Chapin, American, 1899-1965, via Art Institute of Chicago Website I first read Goodbye to Berlin last summer, months after my infatuation with the Kander and Ebb musical adaptation Cabaret began. I read the book during the summer where it rained nearly constantly, following the heatwave the year prior where London was so scorching the city almost seemed to be burning for its sins. That summer I’d take long walks

Lily Allen and the danger of misbehaving by Cara Ballingall “I often wonder who I am and where is my country and where do I belong and why was I ever born at all.” Woman in a Riding Habit (L'Amazone) by Gustave Courbet from the met archives So says Antoinette Cosway in Jean Rhys’ The Wide Sargasso Sea, a novel that proposes the origin story for Bertha Mason, Mr Rochester’s madwoman wife in the attic in Jane Eyre, and, in doing so, opens up a voice against a status quo that se