There will be blood
There is a text I used as a texture on the shoulder of the foreground figure, its a full description, in Latin, of the burning of the bishop of Gloucester in 1555, these little additional touches amused me greatly and were an important way of keeping a personal involvement with each project, I did this a lot over the years and was my way of ‘signing’ paintings instead of writing my name on it somewhere.
The figures face is based on Christopher Lee, and the spire in the background from Mont san Michel in Brittany where I visited the year before painting this.
Gouache on board
