To Everything There is a Season

Matthew Sturgis is a writer and critic. He has written acclaimed biographies of Oscar Wilde (2018), Walter Sickert (2005) and Aubrey Beardsley (1998) as well as Passionate Attitudes – The English Decadence of the 1890s (1995, re-issued 2011). He has also produced monographs on the Scottish figurative painter Abigail McLellan (2012), British op-artist David Whitaker (2011) and When in Rome – 2000 Years of Roman Sightseeing (2011).Caitlin Moran is an author and columnist at The Times. She has written a multi award-winning bestseller, How to Be a Woman, and won the British Book Awards’ Book of the Year 2011.

‘[Emma Haworth’s artwork] recalls late-medieval, early-Renaissance composition – think of Piero di Cosimo, for instance – although I am also reminded of Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow. High praise, but not excessive, I think.’– Frank Whitford, The Sunday Times