The Forgotten Painting

"Burton Agnes Nocturne" - original watercolour by Glenn Marshall
28" x 20"
Painted on Saunders Waterford 140lb CP paper with Winsor & newton artists paints

I have called this blog 'The Forgotten Painting', as it really was quite forgotten and packed away with many others (too many others - though I expect I'm not alone in this!). I had been looking through some old paintings when I found it. It was done during one of my stints as artist in residence at Burton Agnes Hall here in the East Riding of Yorkshire. By this time I had become very interested in the life and work of a great Victorian oil painter - John Atkinson Grimshaw. This watercolour was painted in the style of that great Victorian Gothic genre of which Grimshaw was the undoubted master. I used a combination of just two colours for the body of the painting apart from a splash of red and yellow for the lit up window. I think it works and conveys that timeless mix of mystery and romance so beloved by Victorian society....and today's society too I hope! What do you think? Glenn

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