Sunday 28 November 2010

brrrrrr..........

its getting really really chilly here in London, with temperatures going below zero and threats of snow imminent. with the leaves falling  from the trees its all looking rather bare - but beautiful still.  reminds me of this postcard i picked up on my recent visit to the Russell Cotes Museum in Bournemouth.  the painting is An Autumn Idyll by Leeds born  John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) who was also rather partial to that Victorian habit of fairy painting.  he sometimes used a camera obscure to project images onto canvas and also mixed things like sand into his paints. i think they are very lovely.
and here it is beside my beautiful yellow Roberts radio...which is also rather lovely.

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