Krishna, Waiting in the Wings show_depth At one level of appreciation

At one level of appreciation this is a  beautifully painted figurative work by a leading nineteenth century Swedish artist

when Munro died his widow married the Galloway painter W S MacGeorge

he would often lament to me his feelings of disappointment as a painter

I bought this from the great Grant Waters the author of the eponymous Art Dictionary and it has hung in my last two houses

Krishna, Waiting in the Wings show_depth At one level of appreciationIn our Cecil Court Gallery Krishna is a major Hindu deity. He is the god of protection, compassion, tenderness and love. This painting was originally about meditation and aligning the seven main chakras but it changed course. The chakra colours remain but in a different form. I got the seated, lower half of the figure right immediately and that has stayed pretty much the same but it has taken me about two years on and off to get the perfect face. The