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Arusha Gallery will present a new collection of paintings for what will be Helen Flockhart’s first solo show in Edinburgh since 1991. Flockhart has been working on this new collection for the past year drawing upon inspiration from the story of Ceres and Proserpine.

“I became interested in the story of Ceres and Proserpine after seeing an image of Watteau's painting “Ceres". Ceres was the Roman goddess of harvest, Proserpine her adored daughter. The story goes that one day Proserpine was captured by Pluto and taken to the underworld.  It seemed if you ate in the underworld you could …