Our cake pattern this year was 'Sweet Briar' by J.H. Dearle.
The cake is a lemon sponge, with homemade strawberry compote filling and lemon buttercream, decorated with buttercream flowers, leaves, and vines.
Watch at 2:39 for a surprise!
Sunday, 21 March 2021
Friday, 19 March 2021
WMSC Morris Birthday Event!
Just a reminder about the Members only upcoming celebration of William Morris' 187th Birthday, with poetry, a cake team mini-presentation, and the unveiling of the 2021 cake design!
March 21st, 2021 at 2pm EST.
A selection of cakes from 2002-2019
Any guesses for this year's pattern?
Not yet a member? Join the WMSC and attend the celebration!
Sunday, 14 March 2021
Red House Virtual Tour
For everyone that has been missing Red House this past year, take a look at the tour below!
Gardens, murals, textiles!
Friday, 5 March 2021
Morris Inspired Home
Take a stroll through this house, inspired by William Morris (and featuring many a wallpaper and textile!)
A Victorian semi-detached villa, built in the early 1850s by the side of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal. Jane and Julian Souter live here with their cat Ginger.
Sunday, 31 January 2021
Louis C. Tiffany: A Fascination with Glass
February 21st, 2pm EST
Members Only Zoom Lecture
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As a young artist, L.C. Tiffany (1848-1933) was stimulated by the intermingling of the different art movements in his day: the Aesthetic Movement, the Arts and Crafts, and Art Nouveau. Each movement focused on the value of the decorative arts and the wish to integrate decorative art with the fine arts in architectural interiors. This conference would examine how Louis Comfort Tiffany altered his career from his desire to be an artist of easel paintings to developing a world-famous studio of leaded-glass windows, vases and lamps. His success grew from his admiration for the glass medium and from inspiring his artisans to bring out the unforeseen effects of colour, texture, and form in the molten glass.
The talk will be illustrated by works from American Tiffany collections and from the Tiffany Studios largest and most important Canadian commission in the former Erskine & American Church Montreal (now the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Bourgie Concert Hall).
Recently retired as Senior Curator of Decorative Arts, and former Curator of Canadian Art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Rosalind Pepall was responsible for a wide range of exhibitions and publications, among them: Ruhlmann: Genius of Art Deco (2003-2004), in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y. and the Muséedes Anneés 30, Paris; the Canadian travelling exhibition, Edwin Holgate, Canadian Painter (2005-2007), and Tiffany Glass: Colour and Light (2009-2010), presented in Paris, Montreal, and Richmond, Virginia.
In 2012 she co-edited a book on Decorative Arts and Design: The Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. In her recent book, Talking to a Portrait: Tales of an Art Curator, (Véhicule Press, Montreal, 2020), Ms. Pepall relates stories about art works – whether an oil portrait, a wilderness explorer’s sketchbook or a Tiffany lamp and how she fell under their spell.
Sunday, 24 January 2021
Lecture by E P Thompson on William Blake's poem 'London'
Recommended by John P. Murphy during his lecture on William Blake, William Morris, and the British New Left, here is the video of a Lecture by E P Thompson on William Blake's poem 'London'. Directed by Trevor Griffiths broadcast on BBC1 25 June 1970.
Monday, 18 January 2021
William Blake, William Morris, and the British New Left
Join the WMSC for a virtual lecture presented by John P. Murphy from our Emerging Scholar Series, January 24th, 2pm EST.
In the annals of English art and literature, William Blake and William Morris stand in sharp relief as figures of promethean energy: poets, artists, engravers, and utopian visionaries. In the 1950s they became vital resources for the British New Left as it confronted the twin specters of western capitalism and eastern communism. New Leftists, having broken ranks with Stalinist orthodoxy, turned to Blake and Morris for fresh models of cultural and political engagement.
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