Paintings, images and creative work that speak when words aren’t enough.
Sometimes an image can express something we struggle to explain.
A face, a landscape, a colour or a particular arrangement of light can stir something in us before we have worked out why.
Here you’ll find explorations of paintings, artists and images — and the feelings, ideas and questions they can awaken.
EXPLORE THE ART
THE SCREAM
Edvard Munch’s haunting image of anxiety, isolation and the feeling that something inside us has become impossible to contain.
NIGHTHAWKS
Edward Hopper’s quiet study of people together yet somehow apart — and one of the great paintings of loneliness in modern life.
FLAMING JUNE
Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June — a study in colour, light and stillness, and a reminder that beauty can sometimes hold more mystery than explanation.
THE LADY OF SHALOTT
John William Waterhouse’s haunting depiction of Tennyson’s doomed heroine — a woman caught between isolation and the desire to enter the world beyond her window, with freedom carrying a price of its own.
FINDING LIGHT IN THE SHADOWS: EMBRACING DARK ART
Why are we sometimes drawn to disturbing, unsettling or darker art — and what happens when we allow difficult images to exist without looking away?