Susan Owens is a writer and art historian. Formerly Curator of Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, she now lives in Suffolk and writes about drawings, landscape, history and ghosts – often in combination. Her new book is The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art (Yale University Press, 2024). Previous books include Imagining England’s Past (Thames & Hudson, 2023); Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape (Thames & Hudson, 2020), which was a Times / Sunday Times art book of the year, also shortlisted for the Apollo Awards Book of the Year; The Ghost: A Cultural History (Tate Publishing, 2017); and The Art of Drawing: British Masters and Methods Since 1600 (V&A, 2013).

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