Re-installation of the 8ft x 6ft painting ‘Virgin & Child’ by Chris Gollon in Guildford Cathedral before Christmas Day. Painted for Guildford in 2013, as part of the first stage of Chris Gollon's national touring exhibition to English Cathedrals ‘Incarnation, Mary and Women from the Bible’. After a 12-year absence, and being exhibited in the cathedrals of Norwich, Chichester, Durham and Hereford, the painting returns home to its original location, in Chris Gollon's home county of Surrey.
‘Virgin and Child’ is the largest single canvas Chris Gollon painted. Excerpt from a text by Chris about the painting's composition: “As so often happens, I was looking for something else when I chanced upon an etching by Rembrandt entitled ‘The Virgin & Child’. Rembrandt had borrowed his design from a tiny engraving in ‘The Precious Book of Andrea Mantegna’. Neither artist made a painting from their studies, so far as I know, and my work is one such attempt.”
