Jenny’s articles and reviews have appeared in many places including the New York Review of Books , the Times Literary Supplement, BBC History Magazine and the Guardian. She has also written catalogue essays on artists from Stubbs and Bewick to Conrad Shawcross, Grayson Perry and Quentin Blake. (She never actually wrote for The Beano. [signed, the kids].)
A trio of earlier pieces are on this site – most others are accessible online, though many are lost in the mists of time.
In King’s Wood, Stour Valley Arts, 2005 Trees clothed the Kentish downs long before humankind walked there. There is something ancient in the woodland’s beauty, the sunlight through the canopy, the bluebells and foxgloves, the moon drawing the sap as it pulls the tides around our shores. King’s Wood, near Challock in Kent has no…
Magazine of the Museum of Garden History, 2005 The Celts had their holy groves but gardens, like so much else, really came to Britain with the Romans, holding out against the British cold. In the small Romano-British towns many houses had enclosed atria with fountains and plants, while large villas were surrounded by vegetable and…
from Conrad Shawcross: The Steady States,Jenny Uglow and Andrea Bellini, (Cornerhouse Gallery Walsall, 2005) Ring out ye Crystall sphears,Once bless our human ears,(If ye have power to touch our senses so)And let your silver chimeMove in melodious time:And let the base of Heaven’s deep organ blow,And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to…
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