The Breakfast Table

 

The Breakfast Table, 1884

John Singer Sargent

Love the morning light - the new day - creeping in to this painting.

Breakfast is by far the best meal of the day; sustenance for adventures that lay ahead. A slightly hindered scope for that in Jan 2021, but there was lots of it here

Details from El Greco to Goya

At The Wallace Collection currently: two rooms packed with Spanish paintings on loan from the Bowes Musuem, in Barnard Castle. I love the colours and details in this selection.

The show is free of charge and on display until 7th January - well worth a visit!

Birkenstocks and Boots

Aged Birkenstocks at home

My version of Van Gogh's boots

Boots with Laces, 1886

Bought from a flea market in Paris and not worn (didn't fit) but instead painted many times

SS16 Accessorising

Detail from 'Native Lady of Umritsur', c.1880

Horace van Ruith