Virginia Woolf Woolf with well needed relief from the pace of London life and was where she found a happiness that she expressed in her diary of May 5, 1919 "Oh, but how happy we've been at Asheham! It was a most melodious time. Everything went so freely; - but I can't analyse all the sources of my joy". "Asham" was also the inspiration for "A Haunted House" (1921-1944), and was painted by members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry. It was during these times at "Asham" that Ka Cox (seen here) started to devote herself to Virginia
The White Stag group The White Stag group The White Stag Group was a group of artists centred on the painters Basil Rakoczi and Kenneth Hall. Founded in London in 1935, the group moved to Ireland in 1939 and stayed until after the Second World War where they gained Irish members like Thurloe Conolly, Paul Egestorff, Stephen Gilbert and Patrick Scott. Their group philosophy, which they called "Subjectivist Art", was not associated with any particular style or set belief. Instead, it encouraged an exploration of psychology and of modernist ideas. They also believed in aesthetic experimentation and aesthetics as an objective in art. Although