For number 8 in our countdown of The Artists' Publishing companies favourite paintings we asked subscription manager Penni Pierce to tell us about her choice. Penni explained that her favourite painting probably changes weekly but at the moment it is The Fairy Fellers Master stroke by Richard Dadd. I saw it on Sunday at ‘The Dark Monarch’ exhibition at the Towner Gallery. It surprised me that I liked it so much, as I normally prefer more abstract work. There were so many different things to find in the painting – the sort of work you could see something different in every day - and was painted beautifully and with such incredible detail. It reminded me of the paintings of Brugel and Hieronyimus Bosch. I discovered from the very helpful gallery assistant that it took Richard Dadd nine years to paint, and he used a brush with only a few hairs to paint with. His background was interesting too, he suffered with severe sunstroke while he was holiday which made him schizophrenic, and he was in bedlam when he painted. We have uploaded a video clip from Youtube to the video gallery showing some of the details of this fascinating work.