Cotehele House Window

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Lovely story Linda. I really like the style of the window and how you have created such a charming painting.

Posted by Carole Kelly on Fri 01 May 18:48:58

I love subjects like this and they often catch my eye and I photograph them, usually it's about the light. I love the story behind this Linda, your imagination must have been working overtime! A lovely connection...they probably all passed this window.

Posted by Marjorie Firth on Fri 01 May 19:12:55

Love this so much Linda !

Posted by Khin Swe Ohn on Fri 01 May 23:30:21

You can feel the warm of the sun coming in from the window. Such a good painting

Posted by Jennifer Edwards on Sat 02 May 00:43:41

Thank you Carole, Marjorie, Khin and Jennifer for your complimentary comments.

Posted by Linda Wilson on Sat 02 May 08:54:37

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01/05/2020

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I snapped this window at Cotehele House (Cornwall) last year and at last painted it. Although I'm not to fond of painting in water colour, the subject just cried out for it. It was a special day as my great great grand parents lived and worked there (1851 census), and I met one of the Edgecumbe family there whose great great grand parents owned it, so they must have know my GG grandparents!

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Linda Wilson

Since retiring from a career in education and training management, I returned to art after a gap of 40 years. Now I travel was much as I can with my husband and take an enormous amount of photographs, some of which I use as reference photos. Meanwhile, I take a weekly course in portraiture and…

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