This small painting from my framescapes series was inspired by the grand buildings of Brighton and Hove’s regency and Victorian eras, such as the magnolia painted mansion houses with their gardens in the conjoined Palmeira Square and Adelaide Crescent which overlook Hove seafront.
 
This very fine, majestic square and crescent took many decades to finally complete construction and 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 committment to civic work.
 
Nowadays, the mansion buildings are mainly apartments and flats with  communal gardens that were 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 my framescape series in “Nichola's blog”, The First Framescape or view more from the collection here.