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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 4h

Art: Ana Mendieta at Tate Modern, Japanese Women Photographers: From 1950s to Now at the Photographers’ Gallery, Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography at Dulwich Picture Gallery, and Frida: The Making of an Icon at Tate Modern.

Ana Mendieta

Exhibition description:

This major exhibition dedicated to Ana Mendieta presents many of her iconic works alongside newly remastered films, early paintings, and late sculptural pieces, many of which have never been seen in the UK before. The show will continue outside the gallery walls, embracing Mendieta’s deep relationship with the natural world.

Mendieta is best known for her Silueta Series, exploring the presence and absence of the human body, using a number of natural materials including fire, water and flowers. These ephemeral works were recorded as photographs and films.

Active in the 1970s and early 80s, the Cuban-born American artist posed profound questions throughout her work around displacement and identity, which remain highly relevant today.

This exhibition, which is the first in-depth UK show of her work in over ten years, shines a light on Mendieta’s trailblazing practice, reinforcing her standing as one of the most important artists of the 20th century.

Japanese Women Photographers: From 1950s to Now

Exhibition description:

This landmark exhibition rewrites the story of Japanese photography through the eyes of women. Japanese Women Photographers spotlights the work of 27 groundbreaking artists, from the 1950s to today, whose perspectives have shaped how Japan sees itself, and how it is seen by the world.

Spanning identity, pop culture, fashion and everyday life, the exhibition celebrates internationally renowned Japanese women photographers, alongside those who have long been overlooked. The result is a powerful rebalancing of a history too often told through a single, male-dominated lens.

Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography

Exhibition description:

Step into a century of American city life through photographs that capture the people who built, inhabited, and transformed urban spaces into living, breathing communities.

The exhibition explores one hundred years of American urban life through the people who lived, worked, and moved through its streets. Featuring works by 34 influential photographers from 1907 to 2012, the exhibition traces how photography evolved alongside the modern city, capturing individuals and communities shaped by and shaping their environments.

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 4h

I’m home from a fabulous trip to London & so grateful to have spent some quality time with my mum & to get to meet up twice(!) with @jacquiwine.bsky.social. There were so many highlights, here are a few —> 🧵

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Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social · 6h

I have more followers now than I had when I asked this. Anyone have any ideas? It might Irish-American, to be fair. I suppose the book is too genre/low-brow to have been read by the Bluesky book contingent, but it is worth the ask.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 6h

Seconded! A fascinating exhibition, full of beautiful images.

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All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.com · 13h

To create the birds' shrieks in Hitchcock's THE BIRDS, there was no conventional score. The soundtrack was made on an early electronic instrument, filling the film with unnatural artificial screeches instead of music. Follow us for more from cinema history.

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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 13h

Behind-the-scenes snaps from Wong Kar Wai’s IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, which, as you all know, never really leaves the PCC. We’ll be showing it throughout October and November from our gorgeous 35mm release print. Tickets below... 🎟️: buff.ly/zva3FhY

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 14h

Stanley Spencer depicted all the members of the Frank family including the family dog. This portrait is of Andrew Frank from 1954 when he was two and a half years old. The work started as a pencil drawing on plywood but as he sat still, Spencer decided to paint the work in oil.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 6h

For Henry Van Dyke, #BornOnThisDay in 1928, my thoughts on LADIES OF THE RACHMANINOFF EYES. A fabulous coming-of-age story featuring a precocious black teen raised by 2 eccentric women in 1960s US. Witty, barbed, tender & poignant. A 5-star read for me! 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/l...

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Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes by Henry Van Dyke

First published in 1965, Henry Van Dyke’s fabulous novella Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes is another exhilarating addition to the Faber Editions series, an expertly curated selection of rediscover…

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 14h

New on the blog this week, some reading recommendations for the forthcoming #1949Club. Featuring books by Alba de Céspedes (tr. Jill Foulston), Cesare Pavese (tr. by W.J. Strachan), Yasunari Kawabata (tr. Edward G. Seidensticker) and more! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/t...

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The forthcoming #1949 Club – some recommendations for books to read

Later this month, Karen and Simon will be hosting another of their hugely enjoyable ‘Club’ weeks, focusing this time on 1949. Starting on Monday 12th October, the #1949Club is a week-long celebrati…

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 14h

If you’ve never seen THE LADY EVE, do yourself a favour etc. #FilmSky youtu.be/rJkgroLlrds?...

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The Lady Eve - 1941 - Preston Sturges - PT-BR

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 18h

People in the Sun (1960) depicts sunbathers aligned in geometric deck chairs on a hotel sun deck. Their posture echoes sundial shadows. The work connects his late-career refinement of modernist geometries with his interest in 1960s travel culture.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18h

'Passion flower' by Mary Delany (1700-1788), English Bluestocking and artist, known for her botanical flower collages or 'paper-mosaicks' #WomensArt

Collage featuring a close-up of a pink blossom with feathery thin petals forming a circular shape, all against a black background

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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well. That was a five star movie.

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#LastFourWatched #LetterBoxdFriday Three bangers on the trot, and a starry supernatural thriller with generous helpings of Hitchcock and Clouzot

Gun Crazy (1950)
The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
What Lies Beneath (2000)

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday. (L-R): Class warfare against the privileged bourgeoisie in late Chabrol masterpiece; fun British prison break/heist movie featuring Peter Sellers; a charming, bittersweet film from the Czech New Wave; and a queer coming-of-age story set in Paris #FilmSky

LA CEREMONIE (Claude Chabrol, 1995, 5 stars, rewatch);
TWO-WAY STRETCH (Robert Day, 1960, 3.5 stars);
LOVES OF A BLONDE (Milos Forman, 1965, 4.5 stars);
MY LITTLE SISTER (Hafsia Herzi, 2025, 3.5 stars).

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

LA CÉRÉMONIE (Claude Chabrol, 1995, rewatch). Late Chabrol masterpiece in which two working class women (a provocative, gleefully amoral postmistress, brilliantly played by Isabelle Huppert, and a secretive maid played by Sandrine Bonnaire) take their revenge on the privileged bourgeoisie. #FilmSky

A colour still from the film showing the two lead actresses sitting next to each other by a bed. They are watching something off camera, which is a tv screen.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For readers looking to participate in the #1949Club, here are some 1949 books published by Dean Street Press. @kaggsy59.bsky.social @stuckinabook.bsky.social #BookSky 💙📚 👇

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We have republished eight titles from 1949! 🙂 (listed in comments) @kaggsy59.bsky.social @stuckinabook.bsky.social

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Dan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very happy to have seen these all for the first time. I do have a... sensitive question about the end of DIABOLIQUE but it would have to be in private. #Letterboxd #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

DIABOLIQUE, Le Boucher, Chilly Scenes of Winter, The Late Show.

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'...Hitch famously said that his films did not in any way resemble a ‘slice of life', but they were ‘a piece of cake’. THE LADY VANISHES is a toothsome confection... ' My Letterboxd notes... #FilmSky boxd.it/gAw04N

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A ★★★★½ review of The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Hitchcock loved a retread; he did his entire career. THE LADY VANISHES takes an already familiar trope - a man and woman, virtual strangers, face the same peril, have an adventure, and fall in love. T...

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's a shame that a role couldn't be found for Joan Collins in Netflix's adaptation of EAST OF EDEN. Clearly a fan of Steinbeck's novel, here she is reading the paperback edition, first published in 1954. Uncannily, the illustration on the cover looks decidedly like her and her 1950s screen image.

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First watch: Gun Crazy (1950, dir. Joseph H. Lewis). Glad to have finally seen this milestone lovers-on-the-run movie. Much more than the more melancholic They Live by Night (1948), this really sets the tone for later iterations of the genre from Bonnie & Clyde to True Romance and beyond

The poster for Gun Crazy, mostly consisting of an illustration of a gun-toting Peggy Cummins (as heroine Laurie) agains a red background. The tagline screams "Thrill Crazy", "Kill Crazy", which just about sums it up

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My favourite first-time watches in September, including excellent films by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Tran Anh Hung and Éric Rohmer, plus a clutch of films from the Czech New Wave. The best newish film I saw was Hafsia Herzi’s THE LITTLE SISTER. #FilmSky boxd.it/XFRdG

A screenshot from Letterboxd showing images for 12 films. Full list in the link.

A screenshot from Letterboxd showing posters for 6 films. Full list in link.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you’re not sure what #1949Club is all about, it’s easy to join in. Just read a book first published in 1949, then post something about it online (e.g. on Bluesky, Insta or wherever you talk about books). The Club runs from 12th-18th Oct, so share your thoughts during that week! #BookSky 💙📚

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I bet all of these are worth reading. I've just finished 'Said The Dead' by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, which definitely deserves its place on the list. I look forward to hearing her speak to @rickoshea.bsky.social the weekend after next.

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today's R4 discussion on CASABLANCA in the 'In Our Time' strand was also captured on video and is up now on iPlayer - @mishaglenny.bsky.social with Ian Christie, @pamhutch.bsky.social & Sheldon Hall. #FilmSky www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0030hxg

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In Our Time - Casablanca

Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the most popular films of the twentieth century and the remarkable story of its production amidst the Second World War.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well I made it to Litomyšl for the Jan Švankmajer: Reliquaries and Fetishes exhibition at Miroslav Kubik Gallery! What a thrill, got to meet a couple of bonafide movie stars in the White Rabbit and Little Otik. Also great to see some brand new pieces for 2026 - 92 and still going strong..!

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'Angela, I knew, would sit up half the night dispatching pieces of wedding cake, the very cake that was giving me such unaccustomed indigestion. I wondered if there were any precedent for a bridegroom wanting to spend his wedding night on his own.' #BookSky jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/a...

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Altered States by Anita Brookner

Slowly but surely, I’m working my way through Anita Brooker’s exquisitely written novels in publication order – they really are jewel-like in construction. First published in 1996, Altered States i…

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

During WW2, Olga Lehmann's decorative murals enlivened the dour interiors of the nationwide chain of state-run 'British restaurants,' requisitioned hotels, the ministry of aircraft production and the government censorship department in Holborn. This work is from 1940.

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

British classic directed by #BasilDearden THE BLUE LAMP (1949) 9:20pm stars #JackWarner #JimmyHanley #DirkBogarde crime drama #TPTVsubtitles

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some favourite new viewing of last month, including: - a first proper watch of Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('78) - some overlooked (by me) Woody Allen - John Frankenheimer, Otto Preminger, Joan Micklin Silver, Paul Schrader, Robert Bresson, Ryusuke Hamaguchi letterboxd.com/jamesewand/l...

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Fave first-watch films September 2026

... in the order I watched them

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thrilled for Lalla Romano and her all-important work that In Farthest Seas—in my translation—has been longlisted for the @womenintranslation.bsky.social! @pushkinpress.com 🌊🌊

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Deborah Vass @deborahvass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Jill Barklem's tiny mice don't miniaturise the countryside, they magnify it. My new Still Sketching post explores her years of looking, drawing and close observation behind the world of Brambly Hedge. #illustration #drawing stillsketching.substack.com/p/the-world-...

Autumn story illustration by Jill Barklem

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Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A mate asked for accessible non-fiction recommendations after enjoying London Falling, so this is what I sent back 🤷‍♂️ 1. Turn Off Your Mind (2001) by Gary Lachman. A solid overview of the dark and occult strands of the 60s written by the OG Blondie bassist and Fortean staple. A lot of FUN #booksky

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eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For the penultimate day of our portrait themed week here's one which I've had the great pleasure to see in the flesh: it is mesmerising! This is "Portrait" by Brynhild Parker that is undated but most likely comes from c.1932/33. It is in the collection at Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some more pics from this free exhibition at the NPG. #Art #ArtSky

7 weeks of Dadad
By Jane Brodie
Oil on linen, 2026

In this intimate portrait, 7 weeks of Dadad, Jane Brodie depicts her partner and newborn baby in a tender embrace. Brodie captures a celebration of fatherhood' while recording the first cherished moments where they noticed their child's character emerging. The relaxed domestic scene of the portrait encapsulates the life changing journey of parenthood. This is echoed in the glimmers of a previous work underneath, a ‘failed self-portrait, expanding on 'how my past self has been taken over!

Jane Brodie (b.1987) undertook foundation studies before gaining a BSc Architecture from University College, London. She is currently following an MA fine art course.
Her work was previously exhibited in the Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, 2024.

Sahara
By Isabella Watling
Oil on canvas, 2026

Isabella Watling's full-length, life-size portrait recalls the great traditions of European portrait making with its stylistic classicism and technical quality. The sitter, Sahara Longe, is a London-based artist and wears the dress she wore to the opening of her first solo exhibition. Longe met Watling when they studied together at art school. With a radically reduced colour palette, the painting comes alive in the dynamic brushwork and the tonal variety of blacks and greys.

Isabella Watling (b.1990) studied at the Charles H. Cecil Studios, Florence. Her work has been seen in numerous exhibitions including those of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2016, 2020, 2021, 2022) and the Portrait Society of America (2022, 2024).
She was previously selected for the Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in 2012, 2014 and 2024, winning second prize.

The Age of Adolescence
By Ros Koch
Oil on board, 2024

The artist Ros Koch depicts their daughter outside with the sunlight behind her using the technique of chiaroscuro, or light-dark, to convey the transition between childhood and adulthood. Koch embraces the physicality of the paint and applies it as a sculptural material by using a variety of brush strokes and a palette knife to carve away wet layers to create an air of luminosity around the sitter's hair.

Ros Koch (b.1975) studied law at Worcester College, Oxford University and the University of Cape Town South Africa followed by courses in interior and spatial design at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
Her work has been seen most recently in exhibitions including, in 2025, the Portrait Awards at Rust en Vrede x Spier Arts Trust, Cape Town, Flourish at Ateljee, La Motte, Franschhoek, and A Quiet Gift at SA Art Fair, Hout Bay.

I Used to Play the Trumpet
By Rachel Brickhill
Oil on canvas, 2026

Early-career artist and full-time student, Rachel Brickhill depicts her friend, Saskia, attempting to play a trumpet only just rediscovered in the untidy bedroom behind her. In capturing this moment, the artist mirrors the sitter by returning to painting after a year-long break. 'We both wanted so badly to spend time being creative outside of digital media like we once did, but we couldn't bring ourselves to take the first steps! Brickhill subtly inserts Saskia for a second time through a miniature portrait in the trumpet's reflection.

Rachel Brickhill (b.2006) is currently studying for a BA (Hons) degree in the history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Her work has previously been seen in a group exhibition in Surrey.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'She shut her window except for an inch at the top. This made things worse. What sounded like heavy, laboured, stertorous, even painful breathing was coming, she quickly realized, from the back of the car.' #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/m...

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Mr Wrong by Elizabeth Jane Howard

While Elizabeth Jane Howard is best known for her multigenerational family epic, The Cazalet Chronicles, in 1975, she published a collection of short stories, Mr Wrong, which demonstrates a darker,…

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

First watch: The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). John Frankenheimer-directed biographical film about real-life murderer turned prison ornithologist John Stroud, played by Burt Lancaster. The supporting cast includes Thelma Ritter and Telly Savales.

The poster for John Frankenheimer's biographical prison drama The Birdman of Alcatraz

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Chop Suey (1929) captures interwar cosmopolitanism and modern emotional distance: two women talk, detached, while a couple behind sits in silence. The public solitude contrasts with the restaurant’s vivid color, sharpening the isolation.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mevagissey, Cornwall.' (c1914) Like many female artists working at the beginning of the 20thC, Doris Zinkeisen’s work traversed the boundaries between fine and decorative art; she was one of the first artists to enter the Belsen camp in April 1945.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For Sally Carson, #BornOnThisDay in 1902, my thoughts on CROOKED CROSS. A gripping, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency and the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...

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Crooked Cross by Sally Carson

For a novel first published in 1934, Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross feels remarkably timely, charting, as it does, the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, the falling apart of a country’s fundamental …

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Self Portrait with a Cat, 1938 by Swedish German painter Lotte Laserstein #WomensArt

Painting featuring a white woman with short dark hair wearing a white overall and holding a tabby cat on her lap while painting at the easil and looking outwards

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