‘A garden for the gone’ that came through my letterbox, forty handmade watercolour paints, self-portraits using drapery and the exhibition opening I missed.

Inspiring artists: Sheila Aparicio, Hady Barry, Lesley Finn, Allyson Keehan, Laura Lancaster, Rachel Lancaster, and Annie Lord.

Out of the 44 paintings in Kelvingrove’s French Gallery, how many were by men? Inspiring Artists: Lesley Banks, Mary Cassatt, Sophie Cave, Joan Eardley, Karen Gordon, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Frances Macdonald McNair, Norah Neilson Gray, Avril Paton, Anne Redpath, Rachel Ruysch, Margot Sandman, Annie Swynnerton,

A busy fortnight of arty things packed into a newsletter: shows and talks and reviews and studio visits and films. Inspiring artists: Helen Chadwick, Etain O’Carroll, Ciara Phillips, Jenny Saville, and Caroline Walker,