Description
The thing about doing historically inspired art is that you learn way more than the piece can ever truly cover. Thus, I am apparently now a veritable fount of knowledge about Royston’s Manor House. So much so that I was invited to work on a book about the story of the Manor House with the local historical society.
Obviously the book needed illustrations and images (or maybe I just wanted another excuse to paint, but I’ll never tell!) so more historical art was born.
This piece is based on some old court drawings of the properties used by the King when he brought his hunting parties to Royston. The orange highlighted bit is what we now know as the Manor House, but at the time it was Gatward’s Estate.
See Wortham Lands and Changing Counties for more in this series of historical art.