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My latest painting accepted by the Open Exhibition which will soon be online.
'Scheherazade' 2020 oil on canvas, 30cm x 40cm

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2020-03-29

Epic! Meanwhile in France we are doing the

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2020-03-29

It's so grab a book or listen to readings online. Oscar-winning was inspired paintings as a child, & some of his gorgeous LOTR illustrations feature in Beyond the Brotherhood, including Helm's Deep & the beautiful Luthien.

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2020-03-25

Throwback to a piece I painted especially for Spectrum Fantastic Art live in 2014. She was also featured in ne which went over my painting process <3⁠
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2020-03-25

John Melhuish Strudwick (1849-1937).

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2020-03-19

"Ophelia" by John William Waterhouse (1910).

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2020-03-17

"Hope Comforting Love in Bondage" by Sidney Harold Meteyard (1901).

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2020-03-11

Slow start, so had time to think about - & how Gabriel Rossetti was drawn to eerie subjects,
like the Doppelgängers in ‘How they met themselves’ (1864) or his many images of ‘Angel footfalls’ from Poe’s ‘The Raven’.

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2020-03-05

"The passing of the soul at death" by Evelyn de Morgan (1918).

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2020-03-03

"The Kingdom of heaven suffereth violence" by Evelyn de Morgan.

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2020-02-28

🎶...that's when I want....some weird sin🎶...'Thisbe' 1909, after

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2020-02-19

Arthurian legend in art

The Beguiling of Merlin - Edward Burne-Jones
Morgan le Fay - Frederick Augustus Sandys
Sir Galahad - Arthur Hughes

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2020-02-17

Edmund Blair Leighton's medieval paintings (1852-1922).

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2020-02-14

"Fair Rosamund" by John William Waterhouse (1916), at a private collection.

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2020-02-04

It is wonderful to see what has been digitised by our collection team, I think fans will enjoy this one! It is the drapery study for Desdemona's Death Song (the Willow Song) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, dating from c.1879-81.
https://t.co/7WJZJ2lWqh

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2020-01-31

Paintings by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917).

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2020-01-28