Curling on the Pond II sold it took me some time

it took me some time to work it out but she’s loosening her hair from behind and it has fallen over her face

The quaint chapter titles and the gorgeous Rich Tea biscuit colour of the pages really helped forming the ideas for these little paintings

London commissioned him to paint Sir John Geilgud and acquired his portrait of Jean Muir

suggesting it might have been painted at the same time

which was square-tigged on the fore-mast

Curling on the Pond II sold it took me some time"I often paint another of the same composition to try out ideas that emerge when painting the first that way neither is lost. Viewers can decide which they prefer; for me, it can be either, depending on how successful these changes are. Broken tones between the orange and blue are used to achieve a 'calmness' in the cool, wintry colour scheme." Ian MacIntyre