Resonance is the newsletter by Echoes of the Canvas. It looks back at the project’s developments, offers a preview of upcoming articles and curated image selections, and shares a small collection of cultural gifts. Ideal for anyone interested in thoughtful art writing, visual culture, and reflective creative practice.

A reflection on the strawberry as symbol, motif, and fruit, exploring its art-historical presence, cultural meanings, and what it reveals about Echoes of the Canvas’s approach to visual culture.

The first issue of Resonance, the newsletter by Echoes of the Canvas, looks back at the project’s early development, offers a preview of upcoming art-historical articles and curated image selections, and shares a small collection of winter cultural gifts. Ideal for anyone interested in thoughtful art writing, visual culture, and reflective creative practice.

It struck me one day. In French, we call a still life  a nature morte , which translates literally 'dead nature'. To me, the words that I have spoken since childhood carry this brutal finality, the uncomfortable idea of decay and extinction. In English, still life  sounds gentler and suspended. Same paintings, two very different sensations. Sarah Miriam Peale, Still Life with Watermelon , 1822, oil on panel, 46.4 x 67 cm. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA. Italian, Spanish,

At craft markets and fairs, rows of tables stretch like a succession of small stages. Each one is curated by a maker who orchestrates a dialogue between the objects and the passing visitor, and between the objects themselves too. These displays do their job in drawing their audience, yet they are rarely seen for what they are. For in their careful compositions, they actually echo a fine art tradition: the still life . When I walked among the stalls at Potfest Scotland last

An insightful review of 'Resistance: How Protest Shaped Britain and Photography Shaped Protest' at the National Galleries of Scotland. Spanning the 20th century, the exhibition presents stark black-and-white images of protest, from suffragettes to anti-racist marches, revealing resistance as both a momentum to live and a form of creative expression. It connects past struggles to present ones, showing that the idea of struggle is ongoing and deeply embedded in society's fabric