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a compositional view point that simply places you at the scene and a sense of the times that transports you to the period more effectively than any virtual reality gizmo

Priestley and Thesiger and the result was exhibited that year at his solo show with the Goupil Gallery

It is a wonder to me that the artist of this highly accomplished little portrait cannot be found listed anywhere

In 1953 a painting professor Heinz Poreb came across a Trotin oil for sale in a junk shop in Saint-Germaindes-Prés

he told me that one of the most important reasons for his visit to Portugal was to see

In the Shadow of the Mountain show_depth a compositional view point thatAs a Monmouthshire boy Im disappointed only to crowbar one Welsh painter into the show but David is a fine ambassador for our shared culture. We have shown his paintings directly from his studio from time to time but this is an early work, from the 1960s or 70s. It sparks all manner of Hiraeth for me as although I live in a particularly verdant Welsh county, Im one mountain away from the Welsh valleys and all the historical industrial scarring that