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Sneak Peek

Go on then...a sneaky peek All will be revealed 26 June in London/online small detail of a painting for The Lace Trail (BP Travel Award project) For an organised list of ALL blog posts that I wrote during the BP Travel Award project (2 years), please  see this page on my blog!

Verspronck’s Style Development in his Portraiture

Johannes Verspronck, A Young Lady, 1637 National Trust, Tyntesfield, The Gibbs Collection, North Somersert On a recent visit to Tyntesfield House (owned by the National Trust) I came across a painting by the Dutch 17th century master Johannes Verspronck (ca. 1600-1662). If you have read my blog before you might well know I admire Verspronck’s paintings enormously. I have hope that his delicate and subtle paintings will perhaps one day come together in an exhibition and book as there is little literature on him or his work. Only as recent as 2011 did the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem acquire a number of paintings by this Haarlem master - they now own a proud 10 pieces. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam owns a further 8. Many, many other pieces are scattered all over the globe. According to the brilliant website BBC Your Paintings there are 5 paintings by his hand in the UK, including the Tyntesfield one. Not all are convincingly by Verspronck, however, although the Ashmolean Museum piec

Brabant Lace (2)

This is the final piece Sometimes something simple says more Brabant Lace Oil on linen 24x30cm available. price on request

Brabant Lace

Small detail of a small painting I am working on...

Charcoal Drawing

A drawing I recently did Charcoal on paper, 53x34cm reserved.

Girl Sitting

Small but nice ( I hope) Girl Sitting Oil on linen on board 24x30cm / 12x10” available. price on request

Page 14...

A page from my book.... Pre-order the book here

516 The Gallery in Glasgow

Some pictures of the newly opened gallery 516 The Gallery in Glasgow - a sister gallery of Art Exposure Gallery, run by the wonderful Frances. If you are in the area, do visit! ‘Enveloped’ (left) and ‘White Dove’ (right) my paintings ‘Enveloped’ and ‘White Dove’ are in the middle Thank you Frances, for the pictures! 516 Great Western Road  Glasgow G12 8EL 0141 328 5419 Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 till 6pm Sunday 12 till 5pm. http://www.516thegallery.com

Studio

Why not share some pictures of my studio?  Here is a bit of my wall of inspiration - just added the Veronese pictures after seeing the exhibition at the National Gallery last week. If you make things Black/White it looks less messy! Of course there are secret stacks of fabrics, books, ribbons, lace and antique clothing elsewhere in the house...as if that would all fit in a studio.... ;)