# Still Sketching

Still sketching: art, reading, and the hidden stories of women artists from my Norfolk studio

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## [Gathering - Postcards from the North](https://stillsketching.substack.com/p/gathering-postcards-from-the-north)

_2026-08-11 · Deborah Vass_

A beachcombing sketchbook, gannets and Maiden's Garlands

## [Why Drawing Matters](https://stillsketching.substack.com/p/why-drawing-matters)

_2026-08-06 · Deborah Vass_

How interruption led to seeing with fresh eyes and why we should all try drawing

## [Nothing Said](https://stillsketching.substack.com/p/nothing-said)

_2026-07-23 · Deborah Vass_

A novel for summer days by Lucy M. Boston, dipping my toes in the river and back into ink.

## [A Monthly Gathering: July - A Bunch of Summer](https://stillsketching.substack.com/p/a-monthly-gathering-july-a-bunch)

_2026-07-02 · Deborah Vass_

Some Cider with Rosie, a Shirley Thompson discovery, riotous hollyhocks and fairies at the bottom of the garden

## [The Name on a Penguin Cover](https://stillsketching.substack.com/p/the-name-on-a-penguin-cover)

_2026-06-25 · Deborah Vass_

The unexpected story of Shirley Thompson, Melissa Harrison's The Given World and vintage radio listening.

## [Through the Woods](https://stillsketching.substack.com/p/through-the-woods)

_2026-06-11 · Deborah Vass_

Agnes Miller Parker, H. E. Bates and the remembered countryside

## [A Monthly Gathering: June](https://stillsketching.substack.com/p/a-monthly-gathering-june)

_2026-06-04 · Deborah Vass_

A good year for the roses, Elizabeth Blackadder and the iris who found her name

## [The return of old friends](https://stillsketching.substack.com/p/the-return-of-old-friends)

_2026-05-28 · Deborah Vass_

A portrait, a garden and finding steadiness

## [The Vanishing of Krystyna Turska](https://stillsketching.substack.com/p/the-vanishing-of-krystyna-turska)

_2026-05-11 · Deborah Vass_

Searching for the life of a forgotten illustrator and a magical book forty years on

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## [A Monthly Gathering: May](https://stillsketching.substack.com/p/a-monthly-gathering-may)

_2026-05-07 · Deborah Vass_

The delights of the merry month of May