Letters to Vincent

About Letters to Vincent

Rebecca's Reading Room presents the podcast, "Letters to Vincent". I have embarked on a journey of writing letters to Vincent, each a meditation inspired by one of his paintings. It is a way for me to connect with his work on a deeper level and explore the emotions it evokes. Thank you for listening in! Rebecca

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RebeccaG

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arts

Language

en

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No

First episode

25 May 2025

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

12 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Green Fields, Auvers (1890) by Vincent van Gogh

   S1 E12: Green Fields, Auvers (1890) by Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh’s Green Wheat Fields, Auvers takes us into the countryside of Auvers-sur-Oise in the late spring of 1890. The wheat is still green, the path winds beyond our view, and great sweeping clouds move across the sky. Painted during the final months of Vincent’s life, this landscape seems filled with the energy of a changing season. After winter’s rest comes growth, movement and renewal. In this Letters to Vincent reflection, I write to Vincent about the green fields of Auvers and the quiet invitation of spring: the possibility of beginning again, after many beginnings. Thank you for joining me, Rebecca 🎙️Letters To Vincent Podcast 🎨ChasingART Blog Music by Epidemic Sound “Wayfinders” by Trevor Kowalski https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/tracks/9095c8ad-aaa1-31d9-b75f-cc4b34e9df51/ “Dawning Light” by Victor Lundberg https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/tracks/cab8c94a-6230-4b71-81ff-9bcbc603aa0c/

2. 

   10 Sept 2026

   Still Life of Oranges and Lemons with Blue Gloves by Vincent Van Gogh

   S1 E 11: Still Life of Oranges and Lemons with Blue Gloves by Vincent Van Gogh Welcome to Letters to Vincent. In January 1889, Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo about a new painting he had just completed: a willow basket filled with lemons and oranges, a cypress branch, and a pair of blue gloves. (Letter 741 dated January 22, 1889) He thought the painting had “an almost chic little look to it.” But in the same letter, Vincent wrote something that takes us far beyond the still life itself. He wrote, “That’s my right, along with earning my bread each day.” Those words changed the way I looked at the painting. My eyes kept returning to the blue gloves resting quietly in the foreground. They seemed to belong to someone steady and resolved who was prepared to work, to tend, to create, and to begin again. In this Letters to Vincent, I explore a painting filled with food, beauty, labour and dignity. A moment when Vincent claimed something very simple and deeply human: the right to earn his bread through the work of his hands. Rebecca 🎙️Letters to Vincent Podcast 🎨ChasingART Blog Music by Epidemic Sound “The Enduring Light” by Gavin Luke https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/tracks/07844134-ee9d-4411-8a39-192f016829f5/

3. 

   25 Aug 2026

   Letters to Vincent | Peach Trees in Blossom

   S1 E10 Letters to Vincent | Peach Trees in Blossom Only a few months after one of the most difficult periods of his life, Vincent van Gogh stepped outside into the spring landscape of Arles and found the peach trees in blossom. He was still struggling. His letters reveal an unsettled mind. And yet, when he looked at the orchards surrounding him, he wanted to paint what he called a “Provence orchard of tremendous gaiety.” There is something deeply moving in that choice. The painting could not silence Vincent’s inner turmoil, but it gave him somewhere to place his attention: the changing light, the branches, the blossoms, the colours of spring. It offered a rhythm and a way of remaining present in the world. In this episode of Letters to Vincent, I visit his 1889 painting Peach Trees in Blossom and reflect on creativity, fragility, and the quiet persistence of beauty during difficult times. And so, I step into the orchard with him… Welcome to Letters to Vincent. Rebecca 🎙️Letters to Vincent Podcast 🎨ChasingART Music by Epidemic Sound “Blossom” by Gavin Luke https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/tracks/bbc1f9ab-839d-4f73-8947-d3dcf45897a6/ “The Comforts of You” by Gavin Luke https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/tracks/4f4d7159-e322-4a18-b3ae-3b3ec9ed933b/

4. 

   6 Aug 2026

   The Windmill Remembered - The Laakmolen by Vincent van Gogh

   S1 E9: The Windmill Remembered - The Laakmolen by Vincent Van Gogh In 1882, Vincent van Gogh painted The “Laakmolen” near The Hague, a quiet windmill set beneath a grey Dutch sky. Years earlier, Vincent and Theo had walked this road together, taking shelter from the rain and stopping at a mill for milk. That ordinary moment remained with Vincent long after the walk had ended. In this reflection, I return to the painting and share a letter inspired by the enduring bond between the two brothers and by the places that continue to hold our memories long after we have left them. Rebecca 🎙️Letters to Vincent Podcast Music by Epidemic Sound “Rainbow” By Megan Wofford https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/PtR1JWfYyx/ “As I Dream” By Johannes Bornlöf https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/4cUBo6wPFR/

5. 

   30 Jul 2026

   Landscape with House and Ploughman

   S1 E8: Letters to Vincent: Landscape with House and Ploughman Welcome to Letters to Vincent, a reflective series where I write letters in response to the paintings of Vincent van Gogh. Today’s letter is inspired by Landscape with House and Ploughman, painted in 1889 during Vincent’s stay in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. In this quietly powerful scene, a lone ploughman works the land while a small house rests among rolling fields — a reminder of labour, rhythm, and the enduring presence of the natural world. This episode is an invitation to slow down and spend a few minutes with Vincent’s painting through reflection, history, and a letter written across time. Thank you for joining me in this quiet gallery. Until the next letter, Rebecca Painting “Landscape with House and Ploughman” by Vincent van Gogh (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons) Music by Epidemic Sound “Colors in Movement” Johannes Bornlöf https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/tracks/3704f4b9-0dfa-4542-a588-ad91fa2c9b87/

6. 

   19 Jul 2026

   Irises in a Vase with a Yellow Background

   S1 E7: Irises in a Vase (Irises with a Yellow Background) In this episode of Letters to Vincent, I reflect on Vincent van Gogh’s painting Irises in a Vase (1890), often remembered simply as Irises with a Yellow Background. Rather than analyzing the painting, this episode takes the form of a letter written to Vincent across time. I consider how his work continues to live quietly in ordinary homes and memories. The reflection was inspired by a friend who shared that a print of this painting hung for many years in her parents’ small house in Maine. It is a reminder that art often finds its truest life not in museums, but in the everyday spaces where people live. This episode invites listeners to slow down and spend a few moments with Vincent’s irises noticing their colour, their presence, and the quiet companionship they offer. Thank you for listening to Letters to Vincent. Until the next letter, Rebecca Music by Epidemic Sound “Sylarna” by Ström https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/tracks/69982e98-a358-3eb4-b6ea-a9faf617734e/

7. 

   30 Mar 2026

   Happy Birthday, Vincent

   S1 E6: Happy Birthday, Vincent Welcome to Letters to Vincent, a quiet space where we pause with the paintings of Vincent van Gogh and respond not as critics, but as fellow travellers. Today’s episode is a birthday letter to Vincent, inspired by a winter landscape he painted near Arles — Landschaft im Schnee mit Arles im Hintergrund. In this snowy field and distant town, we find a moment of stillness that invites reflection on the way Vincent looked at the world: patiently, attentively, and with a deep tenderness for ordinary life. So wherever you are listening, take a moment to slow down, imagine the quiet of that winter landscape, and join me in a simple birthday letter to Vincent. Rebecca Painting: Landschaft im Schnee mit Arles im Hintergrund By Vincent van Gogh (Public Domain Via Wikimedia Commons) Music by Epidemic Sound “Aurora” by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen, Karoliina Gabel https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/tracks/6f65e315-821d-4905-9248-d4020a1764b7/

8. 

   2 Mar 2026

   A Letter from Sarah on Deux Paysannes by Vincent van Gogh

   S1 E5: A Letter from Sarah on Deux Paysannes by Vincent van Gogh From time to time, Letters to Vincent widens—not outward, but inward. I have been writing these letters as a way of sitting with Vincent van Gogh’s paintings and responding to them slowly, as one might respond to a piece of music or a remembered conversation. When my sister Sarah said she would like to be part of this, it felt not like an addition, but a recognition. This letter is Sarah’s. She was drawn to Two Women Digging in the Snow (Deux Paysannes), a late painting by Vincent that shows two women working side by side in winter. Their backs are turned. Their labour is quiet. There is no performance here. Only steadiness, shared effort, and the deep assurance of not working alone For many years, Sarah and I have worked this way ourselves. Not always facing one another, but facing the work. Knowing the other is there. That quiet companionship is what lives inside this painting and inside her letter. What follows is Sarah’s voice, spoken directly to Vincent, in gratitude. Rebecca Music by Epidemic Sound “Our New Home” by Sleeping Vines https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/tracks/4a4a7739-1e58-3eed-ba87-13cd31b29f4d/

9. 

   2 Feb 2026

   Portrait of the Artist’s Mother by Vincent Van Gogh

   S1 E4: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother by Vincent Van Gogh There are portraits that capture likeness, and there are portraits that reach across distance. In 1888, when Vincent van Gogh sat before a small photograph of his mother, Anna Cornelia, he was living in Arles, far from the familiar light of home. The world around him blazed with the colours of the South: sunflowers, orchards, blue skies that vibrated with heat. And yet, his heart turned toward the quiet face that had watched him first open his eyes. He worked not from memory but from a faded photograph. Yet what emerged on canvas was not a mere copy. The photograph gave him lines and shadows; love gave him life. He replaced greys with greens and rose tones, softening her gaze, surrounding her in an aura of calm that his own life rarely knew. In that act of painting, he re-imagined his mother not as she was, but as he needed her to be—steady, kind, enduring. To paint one’s mother is to enter the earliest language of belonging. For Vincent, that bond was complex: she loved him, yet never fully understood the depth or restlessness that drove him. In this portrait, one senses both longing and reconciliation, a son’s silent conversation with the woman who first taught him to see the world. When we stand before Vincent’s Mother, we are not looking at a famous artist or a famous subject. We are witnessing a private act of tenderness, colour used not for brilliance but for remembrance. It is a moment when art stops asking to be admired and simply asks to be understood. In the end, perhaps that is all Vincent ever wanted: to paint what could not be said aloud, to make love visible through light. And for a fleeting moment, through this portrait, he found a way to come home. Until the next letter, Rebecca Music by Epidemic Sound: The Sound of You by Gavin Luke https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/tracks/f8f9e05a-0dee-404e-8775-3d9a86fa8d94/ Sources: Painting: Portrait of the Artist's Mother by Vincent van Gogh (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_the_Artist%27s_Mother_by_Vincent_van_Gogh.jpg Vincent van Gogh's Letter #700 Van Gogh Museum https://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let700/letter.html

10. 

    5 Jan 2026

    Winter Awakening Landscape with Snow by Vincent van Gogh

    S1 E3: Winter Awakening Landscape with Snow by Vincent van Gogh Welcome to Letters to Vincent, a contemplative journey into the life and art of Vincent van Gogh. I’m Rebecca, and I’m grateful you are here. This project first took root in the spring, when the world was waking and everything felt possible. I was reading about the quiet practices of meditation and began returning often to Vincent’s paintings. They invited a gentler way of looking, a slow deepening of breath, a sense of being fully present. The idea for this series arrived with that spring light, filled with promise. Now we meet again in winter, the season when the world rests and gathers strength for what is to come. Winter feels like the right moment for this project to become real. Beneath the snow, new life is forming. Beneath the quiet, the future is preparing its return. There is a contemplative calm here that fits Letters to Vincent perfectly. In each episode, I share a reflective letter inspired by one of Vincent’s paintings. These are letters of gratitude and companionship across time. Letters shaped by the wish to tell Vincent how deeply his colours and courage continue to touch us. Today, we begin with Landscape with Snow, one of the early works Vincent painted shortly after arriving in Arles. It is a simple winter path stretching across the La Crau plains, with Montmajour rising softly in the distance. A solitary figure walks forward through the pale fields, steady and unhurried. The world seems hushed, yet it is full of quiet life and waiting light. This painting reminds us that winter is not an ending. It is a beginning held gently in stillness. It is preparation for the return of colour. So settle into this moment. Take a deep breath. And let us walk a little way with Vincent, trusting that every quiet step carries us toward a new spring. This is Letters to Vincent. Let us begin. Rebecca Landscape with Snow by Vincent Van Gogh (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons) Music by Epidemic Sound Aurora Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen, Karoliina Gabel https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/tracks/6f65e315-821d-4905-9248-d4020a1764b7/

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    24 Dec 2025

    The Book Dialogue Joins Letters to Vincent

    S1 E2 The Book Dialogue Joins Letters to Vincent In this special episode, Sarah and I open the first letter in a new series that invites quiet contemplation and creative connection: Letters to Vincent. Inspired by the life and art of Vincent van Gogh, this project uses his profound, deeply emotional paintings as a form of meditation—a visual gateway to introspection, beauty, and the enduring human spirit. This journey begins not alone, but together. We have come together in the launch of “Letters to Vincent” to reflect on Vincent’s world and open the door to a new way of reading, seeing, and feeling. Through these letters, we step into the colours and textures of Vincent’s canvases and ask: What would we say to him now? And what might he be saying to us? In this special episode, Sarah joins me as we bring Letters to Vincent into The Book Dialogue, marking the beginning of a conversation that reaches beyond me. As we go forward, our hope is that others will join—fellow seekers, artists, readers, and kindred spirits drawn to Vincent’s art and the deeper truths it evokes. This is more than a podcast—it’s a gathering place. And this is just the beginning. Letters to Vincent is your invitation to join me in a quiet correspondence with Vincent van Gogh—through paintings, memory, and shared wonder. Rebecca Music by Epidemic Sound Friend of Mine By Johannes Bornlöf https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/W63NlXY6F3/

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    25 May 2025

    Launching Letters to Vincent Podcast

    Host Rebecca presents her new podcast, "Letters to Vincent," where she meditates on Vincent van Gogh's paintings through letter writing, connecting with his art on a deeper, emotional level.

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