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 | May 12, 2015 | Blog, Recent Work
This is a picture I’ve wanted to paint for years, since seeing Fra Angelico’s Annunciation at the Convent of San Marco in Florence. That is a fresco, and about two metres high – mine is just 17cm, and on paper. It’s done in the style of...
by Toni Watts | Mar 28, 2015 | Recent Work
Here’s my latest illuminated page, a contemporary one this time. This lady was a life-drawing model at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam when we were lucky enough to visit last year. I thought at the time that she would make the perfect subject for a painting –...
by Toni Watts | Mar 17, 2015 | Medieval Manuscripts, Out and About, Recent Work
The Luttrell Psalter is full of imaginative marginalia. Nevertheless, the simple image below remains one of my favourites and is one which I really enjoyed painting. I’m not at all sure about the purpose of the ‘golf clubs’ the shepherds are holding,...
by Toni Watts | Jan 31, 2015 | Recent Work
Here’s a piece I’m working on at the moment, inspired by that wonderful Lincolnshire manuscript, the Luttrell Psalter. The psalter, or book of Psalms, was commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell in the fourteenth century. This manuscript was not the first to...
by Toni Watts | Apr 4, 2014 | Recent Work
The inspiration for this new painting ‘Waggle Dance’, came from a delicious British Library manuscript of a grumpy bear with bees…. The idea buzzed around in my head for a while (my husband...
