This painting will be part of The Star Brewery Gallery group exhibition for the Lewes district's Artwave Festival, 5th to 20th September.
 
This painting is one of my favourites from my framescapes series and is inspired by majestic crescents and grand buildings of Brighton and Hove’s regency and Victorian eras, with their magnolia-painted former mansion houses, now mainly apartments, and gardens within the conjoined Palmeira Square and Adelaide Crescent that overlook the sea and Hove's promenade. In an old Brightonian's opinion, Bath and Edinburgh have nothing quite like this!
 
Looking at the history of this very fine crescent with its majestic square, it took many decades to finally complete construction and the pair were eventually named to honour the architect, the Baron of Palmeira, (Isaac Goldsmid), and Queen Adelaide, the Queen Consort from 1830 to 1837, wife to William IV who was much-loved in her time for her tireless commitment to civic work. Over the years, the mansion buildings were converted to apartments and flats with the communal gardens being made public in 1947.
 
From my ‘framescapes' series of paintings with an integral painted frame. Painted using lightfast inks onto a prepared wood base and frame with the painting overflowing the sides.
 
The title, date and signature on the back.
 
Read more about the framescape series my blog”, The First Framescape or view more in Collections section.