Giles MacDonogh is best known as an historian and journalist, but he is also a painter and represents the sixth successive generation of artists in his family. His artistic education was classical. He began drawing from life at thirteen, attended art school part time from sixteen and held his first exhibition while still an undergraduate at Oxford. He continued his artistic education in Paris where he was a pupil of the etcher Claude Breton in Montparnasse.
In September 2003 he held an exhibition entitled “Lucubrations” at the Triclinium Arts and Dining Club in Shropshire. These architectural fantasies were painted in the ten years between 1993 and 2003. They were inspired by the artist’s journeys all over the world as one of the chief travel writers on the Financial Times. They were often painted at night as an antidote to daylight hours spent in historical research.
In October 2004, MacDonogh exhibited a number of “Windows” at the Triclinium’s new gallery at The Tuileries in Orleton.
Since then he has painted a series inspired by the remains of Petra and a number of paintings of the Domaine des Anges in Provence – the property of his friend Gay McGuinness. They are executed in watercolour and other media.
Some of the “Lucubrations” and other paintings will be shown on the site at a later date. MacDonogh has also recently executed a playful series of studies of fruit and vegetables containing hidden views and faces. Some of these are still for sale and all are available to be turned into graphics, posters or greetings cards.
For information on Lucubrations and Windows, contact helenb@triclinium.co.uk
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