Unintended Consequences, a webpage I came across this morning, explains what it can be like to keep a blog:

"There are people out there reading, finding out what we are thinking and feeling and seeing. But we don't know the same things about them. I never fail to be shocked at a party when someone whose name I can't remember starts talking intimately about my 'blog.' And people who I count as friends read and keep up with me in a way. But their e-mails are few and far between. It's an unequal communication."

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Vincent Van Gogh envisioned a sort of artists’ colony in the south of France. He went about renting, furnishing and decorating a little house in a small village, and persuaded the painter Paul Gaugin to join him there. The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gaugin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles, by Martin Gayford, is the story of the time the two of them spent together, pursuing their art.

The book contains black and white illustrations of many of the paintings completed during this time (imagine how wonderful these would have been in colour), and even has a drawing of the layout of both floors of the house.

To read a review of The Yellow House, go here.

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