Berger Prize Shortlist 2025
To my great delight and surprise ‘Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance’ has made the Berger Prize shortlist. Listen to the shortlist podcast here. From the longlist, in the company of so many remarkable books…. To the shortlist: A huge honour, for which I am immensely grateful.
Berger Prize Longlist 2025
This week I was really delighted to learn that Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420-1550 (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) has been longlisted for the Berger Prize. This came in the same week as I learned that it was to be presented to the mayor of Aubigny-sur-Nère at the opening…
Working With Historic Pigment
‘Paintings were valued because of the materials that they contained. But they were also valued because of the mysterious ways craftsmen could convert raw materials into something with fateful power.’ (Bucklow, 2009). The Pigments Pigments are made from inorganic (metals and some minerals) or organic raw materials (plants & animals) and are transformed into paint…
Bryony Coombs 