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In the past three days pianist James Rhodes has performed  on this exquisite Steinway piano at the Riflemaker gallery. The instrument literally took up half of the space of the gallery’s ground floor. The rest was left to the revelers of the beautiful music. The lovely gallery director Tot Taylor also granted us a preview of the gallery’s offerings for the upcoming Frieze Art fair.

This well-lit corner always drew me in in the house. It’s telling me about it’s owner’s love for beauty, and suggests the daily morning routine of the lady of the House in those days.

At the Dennis Severs’ House, David, the art curator, recreates physical still life around the house, drawing inspiration from the old masters. I have painted this one from his set-up in the dining hall. It drew me in with it’s quintessential English fare and the fact that it was the only properly lit object in the House when I came to paint there the other day.

This week I will be back on the Dennis Severs’ House. All of my 2010 pictures of it, along with several new ones I am working on this week will be on show and available through 11 Spitalfields gallery on Princelet street this December  (it’s a stone throw’s away from the House).

It’s time to put the book down and enjoy the view from the window. The castle grounds are spectacular.

This image makes me want to pick up piano again, but not all the hard work that goes with it…

I will be releasing all the  available Leeds Castle paintings for sale online in about a week. Stay tuned.

With the BP portrait award and the RA summer show excitement settling down, I am back to my brushes with another Leeds castle image. My favorite mars orange oil paint, that helps me add that warm color I love so much, is nearly finished. Anxiously awaiting for that package in the mail my mom had to post urgently from Ukraine. Do tell me if you see any Saint Petersburg Neva oil paints for sale in London.

Starting with today’s painting, yet another view of the Leeds castle library. Whatever she is reading, obviously she is too engrossed in the book to be annoyed with the cell phone chatter going on in the foreground.

I still can’t leave the spectacular castle library (see three previous posts on its interior).  I’ve decided, that cushion in front if the fireplace is  all mine. I would spend hours there, reading, and drinking tea.

Tomorrow I will list a couple of 2010 smaller paintings in my Etsy shop that came back to me from var. shows. Stay tuned.

Final of the three pictures of the Leeds castle library. See the small picture below for all three; I like to look at all three together, a note to self for the future -  to exhibit them in a triptych.