One step at a time Scottish Show 2022 "I first saw James’ incredible

"I first saw James’ incredible work at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ annual show

as if they were made for film posters

His works can be very modern in the style of Hornel and Guthrie but this is a gentler pastoral subject

a girl lost in thought or perhaps regret

There was a craze for the roaring twenties in the late 1960s

One step at a time Scottish Show 2022 "I first saw James’ incredibleThe 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