Sporting Arts
Abaco Colors, Abaco Light
So when my childhood pal, Myron, said his favorite place in Paradise was a three-mile-long…
Stubbs & Gilpin – This Time, on Dogs
Thank goodness so many 18th century portraits of beloved thoroughbreds and hunting dogs are adequately…
Sawrey Gilpin
It’s likely you have a greater inkling of British equine horse artist George Stubbs (1724–1806)…
John Swan
John Swan’s art often pays tribute to the world’s most beautiful fishing landscapes, from the…
Rediscovering Francis Lee Jaques: Part I
I knew nothing of museum artist, illustrator, and painter Francis Lee Jaques (1887–1969). It was…
Francis Lee Jaques in Black & White: Part II
Few artists can create a landscape not only on the flat surface of the canvas,…
Lou Pasqua
The meticulously conserved furnished rooms and artwork in the Elisabeth Ireland Poe Gallery at Pebble…
What Is Sporting Art?
In 2021, the former Friends of British Sporting Art, of which I was a member,…
Thanksgiving, or Frans Snyders in the Kitchen
This year we were a dozen around Janis’s Thanksgiving table, but for the life of…
Terry Mathews’s Elephant – a Football Icon
by Brooke Chilvers You haven’t lived if you haven’t been to a Durty Nelly’s Irish…
Janis Gave Me a Pheasant
I opt to make a version called Braised Pheasant with Sauerkraut Alsatian Style. Our county…
Fine Arts & Flowers, Galas & Gowns – and Mellon
by Brooke Chilvers Around the time I bought my first pair of bellbottoms, my mother…Gray's Sporting Properties
