Francis Bacon Studio

Treated as an archeological dig and reconstruction, The Dublin City Gallery, Hugh Lane meticulously transfered Bacons studio including all objects and dust from his London studio. It has been treated as a study with notes about everything observed in the excavation.

National Gallery Picture Library

Adriaen van Ostade, An Alchemist (1661)

The National Gallery has a very good service for using images (at a cost). Am about to order some images so that I can have the luxury of time to sit, study and consider what I am seeing. It will be interesting to think about the differences between looking at the original then an A3 replica or what would happen if you worked from the A3 version then went to see the painting.

Jan van Os | Fruit and Flowers in a Terracotta Vase | NG6520 | The National Gallery, London

Artists own notes, July 2010.

Jan van Os, Flowers in a Terracotta Vase, 1777-8

This is a painting that I found in a quite corner of the National Gallery, I actually did a study of two paintings in this room (the other was Birds, Butterflies and a Frog among Plants and Fungi) I did not take note of the other paintings in the room in but will return to investigate this.

I have decided that the next collection of works will all stem from the idea's and visual cue's embedded within this van Os masterpiece. Further notes etc to follow.