Each year I mean to load up this picture on Hallowe'en and each year I fail. Sorry this is a day late, but I would like to share this charming whimsey from one of Holland's sketch books as my take on the 31 October.
The church is loosely based on St Peters in the Woods (the true parish church of Pembury) while spiders and snakes were supplied by Holland's vivid imagination. The skull also comes from his imagination, but also from life classes and anatomy when he was a student. He also whittled a very pretty small skull out of wood from a holly tree that he felled in the garden.
Happy Hallowe'en for 2014 perhaps!