Artist’s water works to boost canal trust
An artist has donated an original painting to a city’s canal trust to raise funds for its restoration work.
Stuart Sampson, from Lichfield, is known for his graphic designs in waterways guidebooks and magazines, but has revived his interest in painting during the lockdown.
A life member of Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust, Stuart chose a vision of Lichfield Canal in water as his subject for a series of paintings, the first of which can be won in an online raffle.
In the paintings, which he collectively describes as “Wishful Thinking”, Stuart says he has tried to merge the present with a parallel universe where the canal had never been abandoned, and which one day might look very similar.
Raffle tickets for the first work, a 14 inch x 11 inch depiction of Borrowcop Locks hand-painted on canvas board with acrylic paint, can be bought for £1 per ticket at https://raffall.com/LHCRT.
The first raffle ends on Saturday, April 3 at 11am.
