One step at a time Scottish Show 2022 Brook painted his first wife

Brook painted his first wife Peggy many times but this coy little portrait is so intimate a study

At our Cecil Court gallery

There was a craze for the roaring twenties in the late 1960s

One of the great twentieth century Scottish painters

seemingly unposed in fact

One step at a time Scottish Show 2022 Brook painted his first wifeThe Age Tanned Collection I have used pages from a 1902 edition of Florence Marryats novel My Own Child. The quaint chapter titles and the gorgeous Rich Tea biscuit colour of the pages really helped forming the ideas for these little paintings. Oil pastel, acrylic paint and drawing ink on age tanned vintage book pages & UV protective museum glass