Smells like rain Gold Silver & Bronze I’m not sure why I

I’m not sure why I feel such an affinity for post war Britain

when Munro died his widow married the Galloway painter W S MacGeorge

his work sits comfortably in the tradition of British neo-romantic painting

Even more impressive that Rönquist painted this while still a student of twenty five at the Swedish Royal Academy

And those stripes are just plain delicious

Smells like rain Gold Silver & Bronze I’m not sure why IThe Age Tanned Collection I have used pages from a 1902 edition of Florence Marryats novel My Own Child. The quaint chapter titles and the gorgeous Rich Tea biscuit colour of the pages really helped forming the ideas for these little paintings. Oil pastel, acrylic paint and drawing ink on age tanned vintage book pages & UV protective museum glass