In looking at drawings and perhaps even serial paintings whether explicitly named versions of a concept, or ‘studies’ or whatever, something the brilliant Lauren Elkin says about the relationship of found drawings of an artist *speaking of those Gwen John made of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and Her Sister and the ultimate form they might … More This is a blog on seeing the Gwen John exhibition in Edinburgh in 2026, using the catalogue edited by Rachel Stratton and Lucy Wood, ‘Gwen John: Strange Beauties’.