Ballerina Fuchsias With Raindrop Pearls ~ Arcrylic on canvas ~ 20cms x 20cms x 4cms
Little gives me greater pleasure when I’m painting than to occasionally turn my head to look through the open glass doors of my studio out onto our small courtyard garden. As you might imagine (judging by the subject matter of my most recent paintings) my pride and joy are in full and beautiful bloom at present. The bees and bumblebees, too, love them.
And whilst I paint pretty flowers I listen to YouTube audiobooks. No, not romance novels or gardening books – I’m into Michael Connelly’s books about murder and detection, particularly the ones featuring Detective Hieronymus Bosch. Wasn’t Hieronymus Bosch the Dutch painter from the fourteen-hundreds? Yes, but so is Michael Connelly’s main character. They both deal with seedy aspects of life… unlike me. At the moment I just like painting pretty fuchsias.
| Hieronymus Bosch | |
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Portrait of Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1550,
(attr. Jacques Le Boucq) |
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| Native name | Jheronimus Bosch |
| Born | Jheronimus van Aken c. 1450 ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Duchy of Brabant, Burgundian Netherlands |
| Died | Buried on 9 August 1516 ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Duchy of Brabant, Habsburg Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | The Garden of Earthly Delights The Temptation of St. Anthony |
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Love the fuschias, not too sure about the Bosch! |(your lovely work is more akin to the first tryptich of “The Garden of Earthly Delights” than the horrors of the third panel -nightmare stuff!).