This is the 4th year Trudy McLauchlan has had One Hundred Faces exhibition in her shop, Playing in the Attic, in the Victorian regional town of Talbot. There are 100 canvases of the size 10.2 x 10.2 cm, the actual size of my painting in this post. As the pics explain, the exhibition is displayed in the shop window so it can be viewed 24 hours a day!
My image is of course based on a film still of Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief. It was meant to be a trompe l'oeil painting as an etching or a drypoint but it's more like my biro drawings in a previous post of mine.
I've always loved the idea of the kiss, especially in the paintings of Gustave Klimt and Edvard Munch. This was an opportunity to try it out in a small scale and now I've started another larger painting of the kiss which will be posted soon.
Kiss, 2023, oil on canvas, 10.2 x 10.2 cm
Street view of the exhibition.
