Great Painting

Pauline Bradshaw is a painter, a great painter, and is going to have a painting hanging in the Louvre in Paris this summer. Following the pictorial traditions of generations of great painters, Pauline spent many years of intensive study of the old master's drawings and paintings. Pauline was granted rare access to HRH Queen Elizabeth’s private library at Windsor Castle to research and copy selected old master drawings. She along with one other artist from the Simcoe County area were juried into the show this past spring. The painting Pauline submitted was one of pears on a table but the painting I think should of gone is a portrait. My daughter Cait was in a local restaurant one day when Pauline spotted her. Cait was wearing her cat's eye glasses and a hat which falls somewhere between a pill box and a beret. Pauline ran up to Cait and asked if she could paint her portrait. Cait agreed and a sitting was arranged. Pauline started off by taking photos of Cait. Because of the way she works, very slowly building up colours with tiny paint brushes, Pauline works from photographs. I'm looking forward to seeing he finished portrait.