{"id":785,"date":"2025-01-13T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=785"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:41:23","slug":"florence-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"Florence Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\">Florence Houston is a UK based celebrated painter who studies jelly, and food in general, a lot, so naturally I feel a huge affinity with her.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\">She says that she enjoys painting the ordinary with drama and reverence, and she is particularly drawn to reviving the 70s aspic trend which saw impossible things suspended in impossibly garish 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data-original-width=\"1000\" height=\"695\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiohj0SEhu_epJDW2eaD32evFcopf04KbC1gvsY-BHfl1d-fLi1H-dyO04mA1ZUPwP5C3-pIbbkPosvCBPQLTk21KQqxFIW4v8ioxITCZrhLwMWcSwI53CIaCKrscc37mMQ0glfCNH8Nt5Da5caesG29PD149RYEw1io_HIV6anXTbTH5Y7KtQmnErdLEnE\/w519-h695\/DSC_0132.jpeg\" width=\"519\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSC_0134.jpeg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-8\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"768\" data-original-width=\"1000\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhPDjf9gDaM41hfmpJ6NT15R5a3Hcxh0IOj8cWAE5wnAtjhS4zzjdrdYX65oObqj-MPxQnngrOHT7Wf7wzezbvlMKdkOkdSjlfBHbwZXvYO-xSb1MSorpRaSDpquECj8hJ26uqh7h6grefnMz6G5mFWMHBuze7BvBS2UjghaIUKWtF5e-Epk3ZNUjGIXoLo\/w521-h400\/DSC_0134.jpeg\" width=\"521\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\">She talks more about her work in this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2023\/oct\/21\/wibbly-wobbly-wonder-still-life-jellies-in-pictures\">Guardian article<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\">And you can find out more about her at her webiste&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.florencehouston.com\/\">https:\/\/www.florencehouston.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florence Houston is a UK based celebrated painter who studies jelly, and food in general, a lot, so naturally I feel a huge affinity with her.&nbsp; She says that she enjoys painting the ordinary with drama and reverence, and she is particularly drawn to reviving the 70s aspic trend which saw impossible things suspended in 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