Bantry Home, County Cork, Eire, 15 x 22″ Watercolor on Cotton Rag, Fabriano Artistico.
This portray is a redux, sized as much as half-sheet (15×22″) working from my very own quarter-sheet sketch (11×15″), made on location in 2016.
It’s to be my submission to the Royal Assortment of King Charles III, hopefully to reside in Windsor Citadel below the care of the Royal Librarian.
Now, after all, I don’t know if I’ll be accepted by the jury! So want me luck 🙂
I do know King Charles is a watercolorist himself. I bear in mind a e-book on his work in my faculty library. I hope he has a particular curiosity in work coming from the (ex)colonies. I sincerely hope Eire is not a delicate matter. What do I do know, I’m only a Canadian child, and I’m largely (utterly) unaware of the historical past at hand.
This donation of labor marks the a centesimal 12 months of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Color. We’ll be including 25 works to the royal assortment, bringing the Canadian part to 100 items. We’ve tithed work to the crown twice earlier than, in 2000 and 1985. (Not me personally, the Society). I don’t know if it would occur once more in my profession, so I actually had to take the time.
It’s not recorded if the King has ever been to Bantry Home, although it’s after all identified to the crown. The unique proprietor, Richard White, was made the Earl of Bantry for his function in repelling an tried French invasion in 1796. A truth that will or might not be of curiosity to the judges!
To be trustworthy, I count on they’ll be most serious about presenting an encyclopedic view of Canadian watercolor because it stands in 2024, and to that finish I made one thing that’s as a lot as potential, a private work. It seems to be again to once I was on the peak of my adventures as a world-travelling painter, however I hope it’s dealt with with some freedom of expression 🙂
Properly – I hope I haven’t given myself an excessive amount of freedom 🙂
Finger’s crossed, and count on an replace right here!
~marc