Daily Rituals

Women Artists at Work. From Vanessa Bell and Charlotte Bronte to Ali Smith and Jane Campion, here are one hundred female writers, painters, composers, sculptors, poets, choreographers, and filmmakers on how they create and work. In this book we see how brilliant female creators got to work, often in the face of sexism and opposition from those around them. Barbara Hepworth sculpted outdoors, and Janet Frame wrote wearing earmuffs to block out the noise. Kate Chopin wrote with her six children 'swarming around her' whereas the artist Rosa Bonheur filled her bedrooom with sixty birds that inspired her work.