Gillian's Door (1986), Roy Preston

A delightfully rustic watercolour of a farm door lost to time amongst the British countryside. The Gillian in the title was the artist Roy Preston’s wife, from whom he later separated. The door was in a fairly derelict farm somewhere in the Purbecks.

Label verso for The Seldown Gallery, Poole Arts Centre exhibition entitled “Paintings by Roy Preston, 7th-28th October 1988”.

Handwritten note, verso: “bought by GHP from Poole Arts Centre Gallery”, and explanation of the subject (repeated above).

Watercolour with pen and ink. In its original frame, mount & glaze recently replaced.

38cm x 29cm (image)
45.5cm x 36cm (frame)