I bought this inexpensive #OilPainting

It's not the best painting but I quite like it. It's kinda weird. I restretched it and applied a varnish. The signature is illegible and I was tempted to sign it Matisse. It does have a certain #fauvist quality about it.

But the way things are in the #UK even a joke signature might amount to forgery and see me in prison for twenty years!

I won't bother risking it.
Boats on a lake and some tall poplars, with a village in the distance - fauvist painting by Nicko Prints

Boats on a lake and some tall poplars, with a village in the distance - fauvist painting by Nicko Prints

Nicko Prints - Artist Website

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5/30 — Are you comfortable writing from the POV of a child? Written any?

One of my characters in "In The Eye of The Storm" and "Through the Opera Glass," Clarice, is a child when we first encounter her, and a teenager later on. I admit that she was rather like me as a kid, bookish and rather serious. I found it easy to take some of my childhood experiences and translate them to her life during and after WWII.

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Through the Opera Glass by Sharon E. Cathcart

Fauvism had a woman problem. The movement's untamed art freed color from a descriptive, imitative function to communicate emotion, and its delineated planes prepared the way for cubism and the dawn of abstract art. But the role of women in the movement has been largely unacknowledged—as is the large debt owed to the women who enabled Fauvism from behind the scenes. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230912-how-female-fauvists-were-some-of-historys-most-audacious-painters
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How female Fauvists were some of history's most audacious painters

An art movement of "Wild Beasts" had a woman problem in more ways than one, writes Deborah Nicholls-Lee.