{"id":1122,"date":"2015-03-03T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/painting\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2015-03-03T06:19:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T14:19:48","slug":"1993-paintings-january-to-march-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/painting\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"1993: Paintings January to March"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"moon1\"<\/a>In January 1993 things were pretty much as usual. I was still officially unemployed although I had been mending a stone bridge and fencing too.<\/p>\n

I received a ‘commission’ from my friend Pete Astor who was at that time living in Walthamstow with Sukie Smith. This was \u00c2\u00a3150 for materials to paint a large canvas for their living room. It was a great boost after a bad year and I soon spent the money on oil paints and painted out my dad’s unused garage as a studio which was quite good.<\/p>\n

The paintings below came from that brief period before I moved to London to be with Ana Fortun who I met on 3rd March 1993 at a friend’s birthday party. I gave the large barn canvas above to Ana when we parted 7 years later but do not have an image of Pete’s canvas sadly.<\/p>\n

The rest of the paintings were ‘saved’ by Laura Stenhouse who a year later picked them up to stop them getting damaged in the garage when I moved to Edinburgh. I know the Kew Gardens canvas went to Laura but not sure about the rest.<\/p>\n

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