Dr Robert Bohanさんのイラストまとめ

1923 saw the publication of his illustrations for Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Poe. This made his name & demonstrated his ability to stand comparison with Beardsley. The images are brilliant, unsettling & magnificent

Get a God who is not homophobic. Alternatively read the Bible & celebrate that God made all of us cis & straight, LGBT+ & heterosexual in Their image. Fun fact: there’s more in the Bible about Jesus’ boyfriend John, than there is about homophobia.

In NY he spent an evening taking drugs with muse Gervase Griffiths & this informed some hallucinatory art. He felt that Gervase was the most beautiful man he had ever seen & painted him often

In 1973 he married Kirsten Benson & had a son with her. She sold her restaurant to Langan & Proctor, Hockney, Bacon & Freud helped decorate the walls. Lamp & Pines (1975), Two Diners on Desert (c1976) & Victoria Falls (1974). Regents Park (1973) is a delicate landscape

Proctors milieu included Joe Orton, Derek Jarman, Francis Bacon & Cecil Beaton & he was involved in gay cultural life. Derek Jarman (1967), Young Man (1966), Leather Boy (1966) & Boy (1967) all show his humour & sense of fun at a time when being gay was decriminalised in England

He became a popular choice to illustrate the records of the Swinging Sixties. Mick Jagger (1966), Figures (1965). His exciting colourful ethereal watercolours captured the spirit of the age

He ceased to paint on his appointment & gave himself over to research, travel & collecting art for the Gallery. His single-minded approach increased the gallery’s reputation dramatically. The artist was knighted in 1884 & Trinity awarded him a LL.D. in 1889.

Burton became associated with the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1855. He moved to London in 1858. Shireen (nd), Mary Palliser (nd) & Cassandra Fedele (nd). He became engaged to Palliser, who was from Waterford, but they never married.

Thanks to Larsson we have a tremendous record of the life of a creative family. His wife was an accomplished interior designer. Lisbeth Reading (1904), My Eldest Daughter (1904), Evening Meal (1905) & Karin by the Linen Cupboard (1906)

A cold snowy day in 1986. Here’s one of my first watercolours. It was of a 17th C pub in my childhood village. I’ve always created art through my life & you can see a group of my most recent work in this thread!