Grace Linden

Writer, Art Historian, Researcher, Translator, London

Grace Linden is a writer and art historian. She lives in London.

Written by Grace Linden

A painting of a man and woman holding hands indoors with a small dog at their feet. The room is richly decorated.

To master the art of close looking, learn to hold time still

Visual literacy is a skillset that’s rarely taught, but it begins with learning how to look – and how to hold time still

by Grace Linden

Photo of a riverside with buildings, a bridge and Tower Bridge in view, pedestrians on a pebbled shore in the foreground.

Time, like memory, is fickle: days wrap back on themselves

Time, like memory, is structurally fickle: days wrap back on themselves. The experience of it is hardly ever chronological

by Grace Linden