Valentines Vettriano

“To the world you are just one person, but to one person you are the world!”

And today is the time to express your feelings to your lover, best friend or to that person who holds the other half of your heart. So with this in mind I want to share an artist that depicts love, in such an effortless form.

Jack Vettriano Dance Me to the End of Love.

Jack Vettriano taught himself to paint after receiving a set of watercolours from a girlfriend, he had left school at sixteen to follow a career in mining engineer in Fife, Scotland and now is considered The People’s Painter. Vettriano has had sell out exhibitions all over the world and his work has become immediately recognisable.

Ballroom dancing has been a past time of past generations the activity in which people socialise, enjoy and romance there partner in ways that electro house can’t do.

This garden party dance shows the wonders of a warm summers evening that any magic could be possible under the twinkling light of the tree. The class of the attire shows elegance and beauty in this forgotten occasion, where all present embrace the experience of the “Waltzers”.

Elegy For a Dead Admiral

Lost love is apparent in this painting, the sadness of the young girl eating alone being served upon her makes this image one so heartbreaking. As love grows fonder with absent; years women have stood by the shore waiting for their loves to return from sea, so the widower waits too.

This is my favourite Jack Vettriano painting and one which I have founded my version of love on. The Singing Butler illustrates that true love doesn’t need anything to validate it that being in the company of that person is enough to forget the world and be captivated by their presence.

Apologies for the soppy post but unfortunately this is the affect of Vettriano and will leave now In Thoughts of You.