Christmas at Combe Park Revisited
A 2024 update about my ‘Christmas at Combe Park’ paintings which I’ve done over the years chronicling the kids growing up and our changing family life.
Christmas at Combe Park
It’s become something of a tradition in the Brown household for me to paint an interior and family portrait entitled ‘Christmas, Combe Park’.
Staying at Home
I always paint for exhibitions. My show at Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery finished in February and Johnny Messum had just offered me a show in London in November. I was panicking a bit. This was a short lead time to come up with fifty top-drawer works. I had also just finished my artist’s residency at Stonyhurst College and was gearing up for an exhibition there. I’d had the work photographed, the catalogue was being put together and the paintings (30 oil sketches of college life) were on their way to the framer.
Then COVID-19 arrived, and our lives began to change dramatically . . .
