We are Gaynor and Mike Duffy, "Well Furlong" is the name of our site. Our main interests are 20th Century British Art and Theatre respectively, and the site is devoted to these two subjects.

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Gaynor has been influenced by such painters as Francis Bacon and W R Sickert, and some of the results of her research into these artists may be read in these pages. You may also read about the life and work of Lucian Freud OM and Maggi Hambling OBE.

Gaynor has always been a keen photographer. You may like to see some of her photographs in this album.

Shakespeare wrote many of his greatest plays for the original Globe playhouse, the birthplace of British theatre.
Mike is a regular playgoer at Shakespeare's Globe reconstructed on London's Bankside. The 2012 season proper is under way. Mike has already seen 'Henry V'. Mark Rylance and his team will return for two productions.

The modern playwrights Mike writes about are Harold Pinter who sadly died in 2008, Sir Tom Stoppard OM whom we met at a book signing in October 2004, and Samuel Beckett.
Alan Bennett should really be here too - a future project I'm afraid. Sadly Simon Gray another leading British playwright died in 2008. I /we enjoyed many of his plays from "Butley" in 1971 to "Old Masters" in 2004.

Well Furlong is an associate of both Amazon.com in USA and Amazon.co.uk in Britain. This means that you may buy on-line many of the books that Gaynor and Mike recommend. If a title in one of our Book Shop sections has an associated or icon, clicking on the flag will connect you to the respective Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk page devoted to that book. If you do buy one of our recommended books, then we may earn a small commission.

The Book Shop includes an Art department with sections devoted to art essays and critiques and to a number of individual artists. Not just British art here, but covering the gamut of world art. Separate sections are also devoted to books by or about selected British artists including Bacon and Sickert. Finally there is a section listing recommended books about sculpture and sculptors.

The Theatre department includes some recommended books about Shakespeare and Elizabethan playhouses. There are sections dedicated to the leading playwrights of the 20th century, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.

Remember by clicking on a flag icon you may find out more about the book, how much it costs, and if you so wish, buy it. You may also search the Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk catalogues directly from our Book Shop.

Gaynor is an artist working in a variety of media including oils, plaster of Paris and wood.
One of Gaynor's interests is jazz, and she has produced several paintings of jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis, Ben Webster, Sonny Rollins, the Prez and others in her jazz gallery. Another interest is theatre and you may see some of her interpretations of the plays and playwrights in her portrait gallery .

Mike was a software developer working for Fujitsu Services . He retired early at the end of 2009. He is interested in theatre and computing. You may read a career page summarising his work life, and his personal theatre page . His computing interests are reflected in the construction of this site. He tries to keep up with the latest programming trends, especially where the Web is concerned.