Stanley Roy Badmin (1906-1989) 1950s Come and Explore Britain travel advertising poster published by the British Travel and Holiday AssociationSydney R Jones. (1881-1966) BritishLucien Pissarro ‘The Brook, Sunny Weather,’ 1913‘The Village Bus Stop.’ (c1950) Gordon Stewart CameronAngouleme, its Cathedral and its Parts Reference – Eugene-Charles-Paul Vavasseur (1863-1949) French illustrator, poster artist (Year – circa 1910)
Technically, a village has a church. If a village doesn’t have a church, it’s a hamlet. A village is a small community in a rural or semi-rural area. A town is a populated area with fixed boundaries and a local government.
I live in a village, though there’s some controversy about whether our ‘village’ is more correctly a ‘town’. The name ‘village’ is good for local boutique businesses, but until our ‘village’ becomes an official ‘town’, we’ll have trouble getting the services a town requires, regardless of population growth.
Take a look at the hygge images below and it becomes clear why the designation of ‘village’ has marketing value.
English Villages And Hamlets, Humphrey Pakington, Cover By Brian Cook, Ill. Sydney R. Jones (B. T. Batsford Ltd, London 1934, this edition 1941)English Villages And Hamlets, Humphrey Pakington, Cover By Brian Cook, Ill. Sydney R. Jones (B. T. Batsford Ltd, London 1934, this edition 1941)English Villages And Hamlets, Humphrey Pakington, Cover By Brian Cook, Ill. Sydney R. Jones (B. T. Batsford Ltd, London 1934, this edition 1941)English Villages And Hamlets, Humphrey Pakington, Cover By Brian Cook, Ill. Sydney R. Jones (B. T. Batsford Ltd, London 1934, this edition 1941)English Villages And Hamlets, Humphrey Pakington, Cover By Brian Cook, Ill. Sydney R. Jones (B. T. Batsford Ltd, London 1934, this edition 1941)English Villages And Hamlets, Humphrey Pakington, Cover By Brian Cook, Ill. Sydney R. Jones (B. T. Batsford Ltd, London 1934, this edition 1941)English Villages And Hamlets, Humphrey Pakington, Cover By Brian Cook, Ill. Sydney R. Jones (B. T. Batsford Ltd, London 1934, this edition 1941)‘Wet Roofs’, Harry Bush, oil on canvas, 1954A Fellside Cumberland Village by John Alfred Arnesby Brown, oil on canvas, 1939Ribblesdale, Stainforth, near Settle by John Greene, oil on canvas, for a 1960s. British Railways posterFritz Burkhardt (German painter, 1900-1983) Hersbruck, 1911 c1915Else Lohmann (1897-1984) Dutch village streetMstislav Dobuzhinsky. Old Vilno, 1910. Watercolor, tempera, cardboardVictor Brauner (1903–1966) Village, 1922Albert Ernst Mühlig (1862-1909) German, Spring On The VillageStanley Roy Badmin (1906-1989) 1950s Come and Explore Britain travel advertising poster British Travel and Holiday AssociationSydney Robert Jones (1881 – 1966)Carlos Nadal (Spanish, 1917 – 1998) Barcelona, Autumn. Barcelona is, of course, a city. But the artist depicts the city as a village.‘White Village’, A. J. Casson, oil on board, 20th centSalvador Dali (1904-1989) The First Days Of Spring 1922-3‘Approach to a Cotswold Village’, Robert Kirkland Jamieson, oil on canvas, before 1939‘Evening Light, Fishing Village of Prospect, Nova Scotia, Canada’, Stanley Royle, oil on canvas, 1941 A typical Dutch village, Vliegtuig naar Droomland, 1955Railway Bridges At Blackheath, Douglas Percy Bliss, oil on canvas, 1932The Train by Claughton Pellew-Harvey (1890 – 1966), Cornwall artist, ink, gouache, watercolour and pastel, 1920.Achiel Van Sassenbrouck, painter from Brussels. (1886-1979)Achiel Van SassenbrouckSpringtime in Eskdale James McIntosh Patrick, 1934High Noon, Windley by Douglas Percy Bliss, oil on canvas 1951Herbert William Weekes – SuspicionDaniel Garber (American painter 1880-1958)Ivan Lackovich (1932-2004) Podravsky village, 1982Edvard Munch (Norwegian 1863-1944) ‘View from Vossveien towards Bergfjerdingen, 1881’Winter, Corfe Castle Village’, Stanley Royle, oil on canvas, 19371978 picture-book presentation of Robert Frost’s poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening illustrations by Susan JeffersA soft spring scene from artist Rowland Hilder. Rowland Frederick Hilder OBE (1905 – 1993) was an English marine, landscape artist, and book illustrator. He was born in New York but moved to Kent in England when he was an adult.A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas illustrated by Trina Schart HymanWilliam Mulready (attr) – A Snow SceneGeorgios Iakovidis (1853 – 1932)Helen Allingham – The Last House in Lynmouth 1874‘March Morning’, Paul Drury, etching on paper, 1933Nikolai Astrup’s depiction of Ålhus near Jølster (1914)
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:
