Traquair
Bust of Phoebe Anna Traquair in Edinburgh At the risk of boring regular readers, I want to follow up yesterday's Thomas Wallis blogpost with a post about another obscure artist whose work I encountered on the way home from Louth. For years, Shirley and I travelled along the A631 road towards Gainsborough whenever we were visiting her parents - Charlie and Winnie. They lived in a small village by the River Trent where Charlie farmed the same land this his father and grandfather had tilled before him. In those days, there were never any brown signposts in the vicinity of Gringley-on-the-Hill and Drakeholes. In Great Britain, such signposts indicate a visitor attraction. Perhaps ten years ago fresh brown signposts appeared showing the way to "The Traquair Murals". To tell you the truth I did not give these signs much thought and besides by then Charlie and Winnie had both shuffled off their mortal coils so we didn't head out that way very often. I imagined that t...