I painted this in 2013. I was at my home in Virginia and it was a very cold and snowy winter. I have always loved fairy tales, myths, legends and that child like sense of magic. This painting grew from those experiences.
When I announced I was redirecting my primary focus to fine art the majority of the heraldry patrons simply wished me well but a small minority decided to make the journey with me and add fine art to their collections as well. I quickly realised that it wasn't simply the heraldry that was keeping them around but they had come to care about me not only as an artist but as a person. Some of them are not famous, royal or noble by birth. They are friends which I hold in the highest regard. Here are four friends my wife and I now consider family who have large collections of my work consisting of both heraldry and fine art. Lawrence Lewis de Fordham This work was painted for an exhibition in Ottawa, Canada in 1996 at that time I was experimenting with abstract applications of pattern in conjunction with formal heraldry style. I have always liked this piece and it hung in my studio but when I changed the studio ov...
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