Irish Cottage 20/11/09
Who is it?
24 x 22 Acrylic on Fablon. Experimenting. I want to stick it on the back of my Motorhome.
taken from an original on the back of a motorhome
completed 2/4/2009 
completed 27/4/09
My Latest 21/3/09.
We walked along here and took this photo in february. Its my first attempt useing Acrylics instead of Oils.
The Piper painting is my version of Miss Canziani`s The Piper of Fairies
Biography for Estella Canziani
Natioality : British English 1887 - 1964
Employment
The daughter of the painter Louisa Starr (1845-1909) and Enrico Canziani (1848-1931), an Italian civil engineer. Estella Canziani was a painter of portraits, landscapes, illustrator and decorator. She trained as an artist, studying first at the 'Copernicus', a Kensington school run by Sir Arthur Cope and Erskine Nicholl, then at the RA schools. She painted scientific water colours in hospitals and made moulded splints and casts of abnormal cases during wartime. She exhibited at the RA London, Liverpool, Milan, Venice and France. She was the author of 'Costume, Traditions and Songs of Savoy', and several other works about Italian folklore. She travelled extensively throughout Europe.
(Footnote From Mavis )
My aunt Elizabeth was her companion and they lived in a Grace and favour apartment in Kensington Palace where on a visit as a child Miss Canziani gave me a postcard of the The Piper and I carried it around in my satchel until I left school.