Description
This book was started as a memoir of my mother and subsequently developed into something more like a diary, covering my recollections of a postwar childhood in Worcestershire, an art-school education and subsequent obsessions. It may be read in the light, or perhaps one should say in the shadow, of its political history. So begins an irresistible sequence of reflections by Tess Jaray ra. Whether providing insights into the mind of an artist, or recounting the eccentricities of her singular childhood, The Blue Cupboard is a consistently characterful, humorous and life-affirming piece of writing.
‘Post-Imperial Vienna, rural Worcestershire at war, art now – these are Tess Jaray’s accumulated recollections of her roots, the subjects of her inward eye, her wistful reverie reflective, wry and touching. An enviably beautiful book’ Brian Sewell
