Brushstrokes of a Story: the art behind Should Have Told You Sooner
Noel’s and Bryn’s art-related occupations put the meat on the bones of Should Have Told You Sooner’s plot. I stared at art images in between writing sessions, wandered in and out of art museums in London, bent the ears of two very lovely women artists who were (and are) so generous with their time and thoughts. Every piece and place I explored got poured into Noel’s chosen vocation; into Bryn’s art; and into the art of Henry Bell, an up-and-coming young painter who touches their lives in a very profound way.
In the video above, I pulled together for you a handful of paintings that became important to the telling of this story, along with some notes about each one. I hope you‘ll give it a look as you get ready to meet Noel, Bryn, and Henry.
Links for further reading:
About The Lady of Llyn Y Fan Fach
JMW Turner’s Slave Ships
About Kyffin Williams and the Welsh Landscape
About Kyffin Williams and his paintings of melancholy mountains
About William Blake