From Bluebeard’s Castle to The Woodshed
It’s good to see Fairlynch Museum volunteers out and about speaking about their pet subjects, ranging from the Pebblebeds to Favourite Artists. But Maggie Giraud’s inspection of ‘Something in the Woodshed’ will be rather different from Nicky Hewitt’s talk on the natural beauties of our Commons which I mention here Maggie, who is involved in cataloguing the Museum’s art collection and preparing the 2016 exhibition on the work of Joyce Dennys, is giving the second talk in a series held on a monthly basis at Brook Gallery, Exeter, beginning October 2015. The talk, as described on her website, “tiptoes into the sinister world, where artists have portrayed uncomfortable images of women, and where things are not always as they seem.” How very unsettling! But there are familiar as well as unfamiliar names in the list of artists – Balthus, Bellmer, Degas, Magritte, Manet, Mat...