Behind the PaintingEntry No. 025 min read
The Pride of Kruger, painted in Kent
A note about metallic gold, copper watercolour, and how a lion catches the light differently when you have not seen one in eight years.
I painted Pride from a photograph taken on my last safari before I came to England. Eight English winters between the camera shutter and the watercolour pan. By the time I sat down to paint him, I was painting from memory and longing as much as from the reference. That is when the metallic golds and coppers came in. The light I remembered was the light I painted.
The original sits in a private collection in Surrey. The prints carry the same light, on Platinum Etching 285gsm.
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