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BBC<\/p>\nGemma Sherlock,North East and Cumbria and<\/p>\n
Stephanie Cleasby,in Bishop Auckland <\/p>\n
BBC<\/p>\n
Dick Scott said it took him two days to complete each painting inspired by Francisco de Zurbar\u00e1n<\/p>\n
A hospice patient has had his wish come true as a set of his watercolours, previously hidden away in a cupboard, have gone on display. <\/p>\n
For ten years Dick Scott’s paintings, inspired by Francisco de Zurbar\u00e1n’s 17th-century portraits Jacob and his Twelve Sons, have been tucked away at his Longbenton home in North Tyneside.<\/p>\n
Now the 13 paintings are being viewed by the public for the very first time at Bishop Auckland’s Artists’ Hub.<\/p>\n
Mr Scott, 86, who is receiving palliative care at St Oswald’s Hospice in Gosforth, said: “All I’ve ever wanted is for people to see my paintings.” <\/p>\n
He added: “For them to make their debut in such a prestigious setting is beyond my imagination.”<\/p>\n
Speaking about his influences, he explained: “I’m not a religious man, but there was something about those paintings that really moved me.<\/p>\n
“It took about two days to paint each one. I did one and thought ‘that doesn’t look that bad’ and I put it under the cupboard.”<\/p>\n
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Oswald\u2019s Hospice<\/p>\n
Mr Scott’s paintings were created in watercolours, depicting the vibrancy of the original paintings<\/p>\n
It was not until a conversation between social worker Marisa Woodward and his sister Sue Coxon that Mr Scott’s paintings were discovered. <\/p>\n
Mrs Woodward then contacted The Auckland Project – a regeneration charity working to establish Bishop Auckland as a cultural destination – for advice on how to display them. <\/p>\n
Richard Hinch, chief operating officer at the Auckland Project, asked for the paintings to go on display for the first exhibition in the new Artists’ Hub. <\/p>\n
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Some of the original Zurbar\u00e1n portraits on display at Auckland Palace<\/p>\n
“When I told Dick, he was overwhelmed with emotion, he never thought anyone would see them,” Mrs Coxon said.<\/p>\n
Mr Hinch added: “The fact that Dick has done these over 20 years ago and they have been locked in a cupboard, there’ something quite special about that. <\/p>\n
“These are done as watercolours and he has done them just from looking at a picture in a magazine and that’s quite incredible.”<\/p>\n
Mr Scott first tried painting in 2000 during his recovery from a liver transplant. <\/p>\n
In 2012, after reading about the original artworks being saved and the creation of what is now The Auckland Project, he was inspired to emulate Zurbar\u00e1n’s series.<\/p>\n
Mr Scott’s pieces will be on display for a month before they are donated to St Oswald’s Hospice. <\/p>\n
For his next project he hopes to create a mural to celebrate hospice care. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gemma Sherlock,North East and Cumbria and Stephanie Cleasby,in Bishop Auckland BBC Dick Scott said it took him two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-346156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}