#ghost painter

In yesterday's episode of Museum Secrets, we heard about a secret woman hidden in a painting. Today, in our final episode, we follow that theme on a journey into our Eastern Art collection with curator Shelagh Vainker.

This rather conventional work of a bouquet of peonies was painted in Beijing just over 1,000 years ago, by a woman who served as a 'ghost painter' in the Imperial palace - but there is something unique and quite unusual about it.  

Find out what it is in today's episode, 'The Ghost Painter', here, or wherever you find your podcasts: ashmolean.org/museum-secrets

Alinor 'Ghost Painter' is just practicing with her dual swords. I wanted to see how she looked without her Collector's cloak.