Marguerite Horner Fine Artist: ‘British Women Artist’ Award 2018 | NOA17: MS Amlin prize | 54th and 58th Venice Biennale exhibitor.
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‘Drawing 2026’ Exhibition
Heatherley’s School of Fine Art,
75 Lots Rd,
London SW10 0RN.
28th October -13th Nov 2026
Marguerite Horner will be exhibiting two watercolours:
“Presence’ 2025 watercolour on paper
‘Soleil pour over me’ 2025 watercolour on paper
It’s a delight to let you know that the new ‘Artist to Artist’ book is now on sale exclusively at Art UK.
Interviewed artists include Slade School of Art Professor Andrew Stahl, European Sovereign Painters Prize winner Susan Gunn, 54th Venice Biennale exhibitor Marguerite Horner.
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Pope Leo's tweet this morning is profound. Whole books on spirituality have been written on this concept, like St. Francis de Sales "Introduction to the Devout Life" and Brother Lawrence's "The Practice of the Presence of God" (which the Holy Father admires) but the Pope sums it up perfectly.
"There exists a martyrdom of those who offer their lives in a single moment, and the more hidden martyrdom of those who give their lives day after day. This is exactly what all Christians are called to do: to give our lives with love, every day.
"Our age needs men and women who have the courage to do good even when it comes at a cost. Draw close to those who are alone, support those who are weary, and seek out those who have drifted away. Have the courage to forgive, to begin again, and to engage in dialogue.
"Doing good does not always receive recognition and often requires effort, but this is the daily courage of charity. Friendship with Jesus Christ gives us the strength to live this way."
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“God never discards our lives!”
Those words from Pope Leo XIV at yesterday’s Angelus deserve more attention than they are likely to receive. Reflecting on Christ as the stone rejected by the builders which becomes the cornerstone, Leo returned to one of the most unsettling reversals in Christianity: what the world considers useless may turn out to possess a value the world was incapable of recognising. The image comes from Psalm 118 and is taken up by Christ Himself in the Gospel. The builders examine the stone and reject it because it does not fit their purposes, yet God sees differently, the rejected stone becomes the foundation upon which something new is built. That is more than just an interesting biblical metaphor, it contains an entire Christian understanding of the human person. Our culture has become extraordinarily good at measuring usefulness; we measure productivity, economic contribution, intelligence, physical capability, independence and even social influence. Much of that measurement is necessary, because societies cannot function without distinguishing what works from what does not. There is, however, a danger, which begins when we allow the measurement of usefulness to become the measurement of worth.
Christianity refuses that move absolutely.
The unborn child possesses no economic usefulness. The profoundly disabled person may never achieve independence. The elderly person approaching death may require vastly more from society than he or she can materially return. The addict may have destroyed relationships and opportunities. The prisoner may have committed terrible crimes. The person who has failed spectacularly may no longer resemble the person everyone once expected them to become. Yet none of them becomes human by being useful and none ceases to be human by becoming dependent. Leo’s phrase therefore contains a quiet challenge to some of the deepest assumptions of modernity.
“God never discards our lives.”
Not because everything we do is good, or because our choices have no consequences, but because Christian hope begins from the conviction that failure is never the whole truth about a human being. God does not look at us as units of productivity. He looks at us as people capable of becoming saints!
Blast from the past: The MacGuffin: Wendy Elia fadmagazine.com/2011/07/01/t… via @MarkGHWestall
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In 1985, Carl Sagan sat before the US Senate and described the weather of 2026. Not as a prediction. As physics.
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The Pope’s Prayer intention for the month of October is to pray for those who suffer with mental illness:
“God of life, you know, the innermost depths of our hearts, the light and shadows within us, the silent wounds that sometimes no one sees.
Today we bring before you, our brothers and sisters, who struggle with challenges to their mental health, who suffer in solitude with anxiety, depression, or any other mental illness. You call them by name with tenderness, and in you, they find dignity and hope.
Forgive us for the times we have looked the other way, feeding the stigma and discrimination of persons with mental illnesses.
May your church be an open house, a safe space, where everyone has a place, a community that accompanies and never excludes, that listens without judging, and draws near without fear.
We pray to you, Lord, for those who care, professionals, family members, volunteers, men and women who, with patience and love, build bridges of understanding and comfort. Give them strength and compassion to sustain others.
Send your spirit upon us, that we may learn to welcome and integrate, care for mental health, into the life and ministry of our communities and of the whole church, and thus become a living sign of your mercy. Which never abandons and always restores.
Amen.”
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.