One step at a time Scottish Show 2022 One of the great twentieth

One of the great twentieth century Scottish painters

a girl lost in thought or perhaps regret

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

seemingly unposed in fact

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

One step at a time Scottish Show 2022 One of the great twentiethThe 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