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Welcome
to my website. Bienvenida!
I'm an art historian, researching & writing
on the history of picture frames, of all periods from the
14th to 20th century. For details of books and articles on
frames, click on the Publications link on the left. You can
now access a pdf file of my article on Pre-Raphaelite frames
there.
The latest picture frame conference,The Transforming
Power of the Frame, was held in New York in September 2008
(see
Frame Conference 08 ). For the previous
conference, held in Dresden in October 2005, go to this link:
Frame Conference 05, and for a report
on the papers given, see the National
Portrait Gallery website.
For the 2010 exhibition on frames in Munich,
go to
Alte Pinakokthek Munchen.
For the 2009 exhibition in Vienna, go to the
Liechtenstein Museum,
and for the 2008 one in Copenhagen see the notice in
Artdaily.org.
I'm also an artist, specializing in highly finished coloured
pencil drawings: portraits & caricatures, flower & subject
paintings. I work in oils & acrylic as well, and in watercolour
& pen-&-ink. I have exhibited several times at the
Pastel
Society Annual Exhibition and with the
Society of Botanical Artists.
I take commissions for most types
of artwork: I have designed greetings cards, copied Old Masters,
painted murals, created logos & images for brochures,
& produced all sorts of illustrations. I
clean & restore
oil paintings, and have designed several websites in addition
to this one.
I write poetry and have been published in Outposts,
Agenda,
Envoi,
Lighten Up Online,
The Shit Creek Review
and
Pulsar.
I have been placed in several competitions: in
2009 I won the
Listowel Writers' Week Poetry Collection competition,
and this year I have won the
2010 Pulsar Poetry Competition,
the
Northampton Literature Group Open Competition,
and come third in the
Ver Poets Open Competition. Part of my
sequence Rosa Mundi was published over the five
Saturdays of May this year in
The Tablet.
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