René Gruau (1909-2004), Lady in Doorway Wearing Red Dress 1947Robert Weaver (July 5, 1924- September 4, 1994) American illustratorJan Mankes (Dutch, 1889 – 1920) Old WomanN.C. Wyeth, The Tobacco Famine of Tamarac by Forrest Crissey, Harper’s Monthly Magazine, May 1914Peter Ilsted (1861–1933, Danish) Young Girl In A Light Blue DressPeter Vilhelm Illsted, (Danish, 1861 – 1933) Looking out the Window, 1908 framingDavid HockneyCarl Larsson (Swedish,1853-1919) – Suzanne and Another, 1901 Anna Ancher (Danish artist) 1859 – 1935 Young Woman Arranging Flowers c 1885 Rene Magritte ‘Memory’, 1948Félix Vallotton. Woman Searching through a Cupboard, 1901Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874–1939) William Orpen portrait of his neighbour Vera Hone 1912 Karl Jensen-Hjell (Norwegian, 1862 – 1888) Interior of a house in Numedal, 1884René Magritte. Towards Pleasure, 1950William Hemsley – Divided AttentionFrederick Goodall – Puritan and CavalierPierre Bonnard (French painter) 1867-1947 The Yellow WallAll Around Me by Shirley HughesVilhelm Hammershoi (Danish, 1864 – 1916)Poster by Rof, 1958Poster for singer Yvette Guilbert appearing at les Ambassadeurs 1894David Klein (1918 – 2005) travel poster for Las VegasEdith Wharton for The Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton Scribner’s edition published 1973 ‘Afterward’The Figure At The Window by Austin Osman SpareMass a film by Fran KranzAKIRA, KATSUHIRO ÔTOMO (1988)
Header painting: William Merritt Chase. May I Come In, 1883, pastel
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project: