Le Croisic* features strongly in my Painting of the Month for May. The artist, Jean-Émile Laboureur, lived in the small fishing town on the Loire-Atlantique coast for much of his life. Originally from Nantes, he developed cubist ideas and his unique woodcut representation while in Paris. Laboureur (1877-1943) was a French painter, draftsman, engraver, etcher,…
Stanley Spencer and The Sandham Memorial Chapel
The Oratory of All Souls, Sandham Memorial Chapel, to give the building its full title reflects the spirit of our great twentieth century painter, Sir Stanley Spencer. It is unique in Britain, being a chapel whose interior walls are completely covered in paintings. Undoubted inspired by the Arena Chapel, in Padua, which was frescoed by…
Stanley Spencer and The Sandham Memorial Chapel
The Oratory of All Souls, Sandham Memorial Chapel, to give the building its full title reflects the spirit of our great twentieth century painter, Sir Stanley Spencer. It is unique in Britain, being a chapel whose interior walls are completely covered in paintings. Undoubted inspired by the Arena Chapel, in Padua, which was frescoed by…
Camille Pissarro, My January Painting of the Month
Snow and ice has been the main protagonists of January’s weather. So I thought my painting of the month could be representative of the conditions. Few artists have utilised winter themes because of the limited palette and, simply, the difficulties in painting. Peter Bruegel the Elder famously painted Hunters in the Snow in 1565 representing both the…
Camille Pissarro, My January Painting of the Month
Snow and ice has been the main protagonists of January’s weather. So I thought my painting of the month could be representative of the conditions. Few artists have utilised winter themes because of the limited palette and, simply, the difficulties in painting. Peter Bruegel the Elder famously painted Hunters in the Snow in 1565 representing both the…
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