Painting

Painting of architectural detail, bolt on a door.22 Bolt - ©2018 - Cathy Read -Watercolour and Acrylic - 17.8x17.8cm

Can a building be summed up by a Single Architectural feature? Plus the staircase answer.

Today’s architectural feature is a Bolt. The original image took me a while to find. I had my list of intended painting subjects and this one, Bolt, was particularly hard to find, which surprised me. Bolts are common place aren’t they? The trouble is, they tend to be on the inside and I wanted the

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Cathy Read- - Artist = Fortnum and Mason Painting

Meditations on Fortnum and Mason Painting – New artwork.

The Fortnum and Mason painting’s a busy one. Lots of colour and texture everywhere. Two main colours dominate,  orange/brown and blue/green. The scene is Fortnum and Mason on Piccadilly. A long-established, respectable firm with a reputation reaching back a few centuries to 1707.  The Clock dominates and looks incongruous – French Louis XVI style against

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