Lent It can be as simple as this: the sound of someone hooveringmakes you turn around from your desk to look, and thereon your bedroom wall is an impossible sunlit imageyou’ve never seen before, in all the twenty yearsyou’ve lived in this north-facing room, which never sees sunlightbetween October and March – but here are…

‘The Zandvoort Fishergirl’ by Elizabeth Adela Forbes, 1884. Penlee Gallery  Zandvoort Fishergirl after the painting by Elizabeth Adela Forbes Left hand on her hip, her right hand balancing an earthenware platter against her blue apron, she stares at us, unsmiling. Her face is precise: jaw set, hair scraped back; there are touches of light down…