Welcome to this showcase of people and places by Caspar de Bono.
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Fort St Angelo is opposite the city of Valletta in Malta. de Bono is a Maltese surname. My grandmother was always encouraging me to paint.
Thank you for visiting this showcase of my work. I have returned to drawing and painting after a long break. The Chapel series was painted when I was 18. Fort St Angelo when I was 38. Tall Sky in 2022 when I was 50. I have time to make up as I learn more.
I am studying for the Portrait Diploma at Heatherley School of Fine Art.
Blue Print
October 2024, winner of The Mr Heatherley Composition.
This is an annual competition initiated by the late Principal Emeritus John Walton and based on a similar project originally given to painting students at the Slade.
This annual competition was sponsored by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
This 2024 prize was judged and awarded by Alastair Adams PPRP.
This is a painting of my three children playing our favourite board game. Behind their portraits are a series of blue prints that are significant to each of them. Max on the left, has his engineering diagrams behind him taken from his first published academic paper on non-linear dynamics. Rose, in the middle, is studying computer game design and behind her is her creation of anthropomorphic jelly fish. Joe on the right has his illustrations for children's books in the background. They each have blueprints of their own creations behind them, these images are part of their identity, the spirit with which they play the game and to some extent live their lives. I like the idea that there is an aspect of identity and personality captured in their creations as well as in the image of their faces.
I started to paint as a teenager. This is an oil painting of the school chapel from the opposite aspect used in the Chapel series. The Headmaster commissioned me to paint this for his wife's birthday. I am open to commissions of places or people and would love to hear from you via this website
or via Instagram
I spent some of my childhood in North Norfolk and am inspired by the vast sky. This image is a challenge to the idea that "landscapes are traditionally painted in landscape orientation". How we frame an idea shapes other people's thinking. The landscape orientation does not convey the height of the sky. So I decided to create an exaggerated portrait of a landscape. For the composition, I used the pano mode on my phone to take a long vertical shot - leaning over backwards in an arc to catch as much as possible. Seen from this perspective we are small in relation to the sky, our climate. Seen from this perspective it is something to be respected.
My father originated the phrase "Lateral Thinking" and dedicated his life to teaching thinking as a skill. Especially the importance of perception in shaping how we then apply the more traditional thinking skills of logic and analysis. I thought it fitting to paint a subjective colour portrait of him from this photograph.
He inspired me to be curious about ideas.
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Prints
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