A Commission for the 120th Anniversary of the Ski Club of Great Britain, I've painted this time capsule, to represent the founding day of the Ski Club at the Hotel Cafe Royal in Piccadilly, London. I've got the pleasure to be asked to paint this live at their Gala Dinner last Friday. I've finished the last details at home. It encompasses a scene at the Hotel Cafe Royal in the early 1900's, with a skier of nowadays in Grindelwald, with views of the famous mountains Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau, based on a photo of action photographer Jan Cadosch, and on the right you can see Sir Arnold Lunn, who was was very much a person in contact with the Ski Club on those early years, and who started organising ski gate racing in Switzerland. There is another early skier of the 1900's next to him.
The idea of this Time Capsule is to bring together the founding fathers of the Ski Club of Great Britain, to what the Ski Club is today, and what it will be in the next 120 years.
Used soft pastels, pan pastels, charcoal and pastel pencils on La Carte Pastel.
Framed on an ornate wooden frame with golden slip.
Unframed 50 x 65 cm (19.68" x 25.59")
Price of painting is unframed.