December 13th, 2011

                             'Trompe l'Oeil' - The Art of Illusion 

by

Mr Tom Errington

This talk will be about what it is that makes the brain accept information provided by the eye and how it has to come to an instant decision on whether a painting is really three dimensional or simply flat representation.

Biography

Tom Errington has been a practising artist, gilder and painter of Trompe l'Oeil murals for over twenty years.

Reading List

Trompe L'oeil; Painted Architecture, by  Miriam Millman, Weidenfield and Nicolson 1986

The Painted Ceiling, by Graham Rust, Bullfinch Press 2001

Revisiting the Painted House, by Graham Rust, Bullfinch Press 2005

Perspective, by Jan Vredeman de Vries, Dover 1968

 Wikipedia:  www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe-l'oeil