Sally Stockhold

Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf’s sister, Chillin' in Charleston, Sussex England

From “myselfportraits, ode to icons” Series
Hand-colored archival pigment print
Edition of 6 + 2 APs
Sally Stockhold © 2009

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) Bell, the bohemian sister of Virginia Woolf, was a well-known British painter and graphic designer during the early twentieth century....a central Figure of a group of writers and artists known as the “Bloomsbury Group.” Charleston, her country home in East Sussex, is now a museum, the interior, decorated and painted throughout by Vanessa and her second husband, artist Duncan Grant. The home further helped the couple to conceptualize their painting and interior design ideas and was also a welcome retreat for their artist and writer friends. Along with artist and art critic Roger Fry, they also established a hugely successful interior design business known as the “Omega Workshops.”

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