by Toni Watts | Aug 7, 2015 | Blog, Materials and Techniques
Many people love looking at the gilded images in medieval manuscripts. There is nothing quite like the shimmer of gold leaf as the page is turned. However, it was ink made from oak galls that made the composition of those beautiful manuscripts possible. ...
by Toni Watts | Jul 4, 2015 | Blog
Last night Lincolnshire’s Great Exhibition was formally opened by His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester. As a token of the city’s appreciation Lord Cormack, chairman of the Historic Lincoln Trust, presented him with one of my paintings based on the...
by Toni Watts | Jul 2, 2015 | Blog, Materials and Techniques
It’s been a long time coming but I finally got round to turning my home-grown verdigris pigment into paint. Cennino Cennini, writing in fifteenth century Florence, says about verdigris: ‘It is very green by itself. And is manufactured by alchemy, from...
by Toni Watts | Jun 28, 2015 | Blog, Recent Work
Some months ago I was asked by Lord Cormack, chairman of the Historic Lincoln Trust, to create a series of paintings based directly on images from the Luttrell Psalter. The British Library has loaned this magnificent fourteenth century manuscript to Lincoln for the...
by Toni Watts | Jun 19, 2015 | Blog, Materials and Techniques, Workshops and demonstrations
Just a quick post to let you know that I’ll be doing a (potentially messy!) practical demonstration for the Fine Art Trade Guild on extracting pigment from rocks, roots and berries at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry in July – booking...
by Toni Watts | May 24, 2015 | Blog
I am absolutely over the moon. I have been offered the post of Artist in Residence at Lincoln Cathedral for 2015 / 2016. Obviously, there is some competition for a fantastic opportunity like this, so I have been keeping my fingers crossed and waiting for the post to...
