
Stories Behind The Pictures
Episode 2 Fun & Games & Dressing Up I had embarked on the project to make some pictures to illustrate Deirdre McGarry’s “Lonely Destiny” poems. I was getting ideas & inspiration by looking at the work of 14th Century Italian painter Giotto. I discovered that art historians think that Giotto may have been influenced by medieval mystery plays and other kinds of street theatre in working out his dramatic and lifelike paintings. This gave me the idea of treating my illustrations