‘Interior in London, Brunswick Square’ 1912 Vilhelm HammershøiLaziness, by Spanish painter Ramon Casas i Carbó (1898-1900). Museu Nacional d’Art de CatalunyaDavid Adolph Constant Artz (1837-1890, Dutch) Courting‘Kitchen Interior.’ (c1930) Barnett FreedmanMade with stock photography and an AI Art Generator‘Woman Descending a Staircase.’ Carl HolsøeVictor Gilbert (French, 1847-1933) Woman Cutting BreadVilhelm Hammershöi (1864 – 1916, Danish) The Banality Of Everyday LifeJozef Israels (1824-1911, Dutch) The Warmth of the Hearth Interior With A Woman Seen From The Back 1904 Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish, 1864-1916) Arthur Streeton (Australian, 1867–1943) Interior, Olinda, 1940. Oil on canvasFelix VallottonWilhelm Hammershøi interiorFranz Saddle (1891-1945) Austrian, Song At Dusk 1931Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (1861–1933) The Dining room at Liselund 1917Carl HOLSOE (1863-1935)Boris Sveshnikov (Russian, 1927-1998 Shadow 1954Willem Van Hasselt (Dutch, 1882-1963) Sewing in the bedroom. It can’t be too dark in here because she can see what she’s doing. Then again, your night vision gets worse as you get older. She could be quite young.Lady on a Sofa c.1910 Harold Gilman 1876-1919 Purchased 1948Albert Neuhuys (Dutch painter) 1844-1914 Family sceneTom Lovell, ‘Evacuated at night’ 1942Joseph Dierickx (1865-1959, Belgian) Making Artificial Flowers Gianfranco Manara (1924-1993) Interior, Backlight, 1961 Frank Bramley (English painter) (1857-1915) A Truce 1912René Rimbert (French, 1896 – 1991) Vue sur la ville ou la fenêtre ouverte, 1929Émile Friant – Portrait de sa mère épluchant un navet, devant une fenêtre 1887Konrad Krzyzanowski (1872 – 1922) Portrait of Pelagia Witosławska, 1912
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:
