TINY PAINTINGS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1935, Page 6

TINY PAINTINGS

PICTURES ON FINGER-NAILS

An artist who is producing tlid world’s tiniest paintings bids fair to start a new vogue for women in London. His works are so small that 30 different views just cover a postage stamp, and he has had requests topaint miniature pictures on the fingernails of well-known society leaders. Yet this 30-year-old artist —Mr Stanley A. Burchett is his name—has not had a single day’s tuition in his life!

“I first came into the public life-” h? told an. interviewer, “when a number of ni,y miniatures were accepted for the Queen’s original Dolt’s House. “It is only , within the last year that [ have taken the miniature* work seriously, but now I am receiving letters from all parts of the world for my works.” . While on a visit to the Channel Islands Mr Burchett executed a miniature water colour of Government House, Jersey—it measured half an inch by five-sixteenths! “The finger-nail paintings I started among the fashion leaders are becoming quite a vogue,” he added, “and may soon spread to girls in ordinary walks of life.” Mr Burchett ah eXrGrenadier Guardsman, is at present touring Britain executing his paintings.