Visiting a museum recently, viewing a medieval painting of an angel I had the inspiration to portray one of my own interpretation, setting it in the pagan world of Andean traditions.

Monteriggioni is a medieval walled town, located on a natural hillock, built by the Sienese in 1214–19 as a front line defensive fortification in their wars against Florence, by assuming command of the Via Cassia running through the Val d'Elsa and Val Staggia to the west. It withstood many attacks from both the Florentines and the forces of the Bishop of Volterra. (Wikipedia)

When visiting Goodnesstone Park and Gardens in Kent, I found this late blooming magnolia

The Patna was a local steamer as old as the hills, lean like a greyhound, and eaten up with rust worse than a condemned water-tank. The beginning of Lord Jim's troubled journey

Another still life...

After Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin's Still Life with Glass, Fruit and Picture. 1924

An image back in time....