Painting for Posterity

Peter Pearson discusses the skillful painting techniques employed by Michael Dillon, Jane Willoughby and Patrick Fitzgerald, practitioners of an art form that began with cave painting


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The art of painting is expected by many people to be a piece of work which is portable, usually on canvas or paper and often framed. Yet a rapid survey of art history reveals that much which is considered important and has survived consists of mural painting — a tradition that stretches back to Egyptian culture and beyond, to cave paintings

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