On the side of this blog is an example of my flower paintings which were deleted from the JTR Casebook. I hope that Count Dracula is playing up with that site !
Your paintings are fantastic, you have such a wonderful talent. I hope that you can post some more of them for us to enjoy!
It's a beautiful warm sunny spring day here in Sydney, I'm off to walk in my garden to enjoy the day .. unfortunately there are no flowers in my garden as beautiful as yours.
until later, love Victoria
ps. This is the first 'blog' I have ever been on .. clever that you knew how to set it up.
Maria Spilsbury Birchwood
started painting at an early age at the studio of the Spanish painter Don Valero Lecha and the muralist Violeta Bonilla, pupil to the great Mexican painter, Diego de Rivera. She received her first commission at the age of 13: a commission to paint a bullfight.When she was in her teens, she entered a competition and learned that she had won first prize. She was presented to the sponsor of the competition,who offered her a scholarship on behalf of the Dante Alligheri Society to study art in Rome.
Maria continued her painting studies in Madrid, Spain at the school of San Fernando under the tutelage of the foremost landscape painter Jose Sanchez Carralero. She moved to England where, in 1982, she married forensic genealogist Peter Birchwood.
Over the years, Maria has exhibited her work widely in different countries; at the Barbican Gallery in London, in California where she worked as a scenic artist on theatrical backdrops, Bedfordshire, and Wales, where she now lives. A recent commission was to paint the portrait of Liberal Member of Parliament Lembit Opik. The portrait is now hanging in the House of Commons.
2 comments:
Hi Maria
I love your pictures because they have such life. They're a kind of tonic.
I am not what you might call a visually minded person, more a words and music person, but your paintings certainly connect with me.
Robert
Hola Maria,
Your paintings are fantastic, you have such a wonderful talent. I hope that you can post some more of them for us to enjoy!
It's a beautiful warm sunny spring day here in Sydney, I'm off to walk in my garden to enjoy the day .. unfortunately there are no flowers in my garden as beautiful as yours.
until later,
love Victoria
ps. This is the first 'blog' I have ever been on .. clever that you knew how to set it up.
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