Artist Stephen Lawlor: ‘I’m as cynical as the next man – but I saw a ghost and it changed how I look at the world’
The painter and printmaker was more surprised than anyone to find inspiration from a spectre
Artist Stephen Lawlor in his studio. Picture by Steve Humphreys
Niall MacMonagle
In Uttersberg, Sweden, in 1850, a young woman from the big house fell for the stable boy.
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