The Lace Trail
In 2013 my Self Portrait with Lace Collar was accepted into the BP Portrait Award exhibition (see here). One of the awards in this exhibition is the Travel Award, which is given out every year in order to allow artists to expand their horizon and work on a portraiture-related project. Every artist selected for the BP Portrait Award is invited to submit a proposal for the Travel Award.I gratefully received the BP Travel Award for my proposal to research how lace is depicted in early 17th century portraiture in England and The Netherlands. My travel and research inspired me to create a new series of paintings. A selection of the paintings are exhibited within the BP Portrait Award 2014 exhibition which will start in London in June 2014 and tour to Sunderland and Edinburgh thereafter.
Book The Lace Trail
Besides the 10 paintings I created for the BP Travel Award I have also written a book. It features essays on art history, portraiture in early 17th century, lace history, the making of the paintings and a catalogue section for the paintings.
Prints
The National Portrait Gallery sells beautiful large mounted prints of some of my paintings. Follow this link for more info.
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