Lichfield Cathedral viewed from Stowe Fields (Staffordshire)
(Three sizes - Edition Limited to 450 prints of each size)

Original - gouache on paper © John Twinning 1996 & 2010
Image size - Small 18 x 14.4 cm (£18.50) - Large 27 x 21.5 cm (£34.50)
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This painting managed to get itself into the Singer and Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London in 1997 and was sold on the opening night! Lichfield Cathedral is here viewed from the very edge of Stowe Pool and rises majestically from behind a number of smaller buildings including the large bright house on the right hand side of the picture. This house is known euphemistically in local circles as 'Spite House'. Why is that you may ask? Well, a trustworthy source has informed me that this house was built by a wife many years ago when her marriage failed. The husband's view was deliberately blocked soon thereafter when the wife had this house built to spite him. Strange?… yes, but I am assured true. Interestingly in 2008, Lichfield Cathedral - but unfortunately for me not my painting of it - featured on one of a range of Royal Mail stamps of British Cathedrals.

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