The May Queen exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Show

Standing under my work in the
Small Weston Room at the RA.

I have managed to get work displayed outside of my hometown twice this year. Firstly, I had a display of my work at the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas which relates to the work I'm doing on Doom Towns  - more on that in a later post - and now my painting The May Queen (From Henman's Magic Lantern Show) has been selected to exhibit at the RA. Here's a picture of me looking chuffed, just after I realised it had sold (like many others in the room) before the exhibition had opened.

The work itself is based on a lantern slide from the Higgins Art Gallery & Museum's collection. The slide is one of a number showing traditional May Day celebrations in Bedford circa 1911.

Kristian Purcell The May Queen (From Henman'sMagic Lantern Show), 2013.