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Chrissie Richards is a professional artist living in Brightlingsea on the North Essex coast in England whose work draws on her life experience. “I wanted…
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Norwegian painter, Edward Munch was a prolific artist whose focus is human mortality, chronic illness, sexual liberation and religious aspiration. He was considered the head…
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Alexandra Sacks, a reproductive psychiatrist, has a new way of explaining the transition to motherhood, which for some can be a very challenging and discouraging process. She…
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Where do we draw the line between wishing for better fortune and using fantasy as escape? This question is at the heart of a recent…