Vanitas Neutral Described as the ‘Grandfather of

Described as the ‘Grandfather of British illustration’ (thank you Chris Beetles) his economy of line was said to have modernised his trade and certainly influenced the next generation of cartoonists from Frank Reynolds to David Low

I imagined that it was a very stylised portrait but found an old black and white image of the young socialite at a ball in 1945 and it’s a pretty good likeness

Her work is deceptively quiet and unassuming

Although we like to claim a certain dominance in selling contemporary Scottish paintings south of the border Craig Mulholland always eluded us

this has the essence of a book cover – only really making sense in the context of the title and narrative within

Vanitas Neutral Described as the ‘Grandfather of