Phillipa Faulkner was a Belleville artist who was part of a notable city family and lived in what is now the city museum. I love her vivacious ink and watercolour sketch of the Moodie House, now in the collection of the Belleville Public Library. Her use of ink line and unexpected colour –a flash of green in the window, orange in the stone, chalky white door– and her loose and crazy trees merging into the sky, make this a fascinating sketch of a building I know so well. I posted this sketch of the side view Moodie house earlier in the month, but am inspired by Faulkner’s lively capturing of the old place to give it another try. (Painting posted with the generous permission of Anne Burrows Faulkner.)
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