Artist Stephen B. Whatley & Royal Commission. 1999
Artist Stephen B. Whatley in May 1999, in Covent Garden, London, UK : "….a happy moment - I had just been to Buckingham Palace to collect my oil painting "The Grand Staircase, Buckingham Palace" (still wet) ; which I had painted a few days earlier , over two days, at the foot of The Grand Staircase.
An awesome, surreal experience; rather like creating inside a large velvet jewel box. The silence was beautiful; aside from the distant sound of the Changing of The Guard.
The painting was one of two paintings of Buckingham Palace commissioned jointly by the Royal Collection & London Underground Ltd, to be reproduced on posters advertising the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace that year all over London Underground so there was an urgency to get it to the London Transport Museum (in Covent Garden) - who then took possession of the painting; to arrange production of the posters.
I hope to finally get to re-photograph this painting digitally this year."
"The Grand Staircase, Buckingham Palace". 1999
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30in/102 x 76cm
Collection of The London Transport Museum, London, UK
Artist Stephen B. Whatley & Royal Commission. 1999
Artist Stephen B. Whatley in May 1999, in Covent Garden, London, UK : "….a happy moment - I had just been to Buckingham Palace to collect my oil painting "The Grand Staircase, Buckingham Palace" (still wet) ; which I had painted a few days earlier , over two days, at the foot of The Grand Staircase.
An awesome, surreal experience; rather like creating inside a large velvet jewel box. The silence was beautiful; aside from the distant sound of the Changing of The Guard.
The painting was one of two paintings of Buckingham Palace commissioned jointly by the Royal Collection & London Underground Ltd, to be reproduced on posters advertising the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace that year all over London Underground so there was an urgency to get it to the London Transport Museum (in Covent Garden) - who then took possession of the painting; to arrange production of the posters.
I hope to finally get to re-photograph this painting digitally this year."
"The Grand Staircase, Buckingham Palace". 1999
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30in/102 x 76cm
Collection of The London Transport Museum, London, UK