IN ART

my limited edition prints – of which there are typically a run of 50 of each piece. The limited edition canvas prints are personally hand embellished before being varnished and framed. I take great pride in the fact that it really is difficult to tell the difference between the original painting and the print once this process is done.”

It is important to Barrington that the artworks for each property have consistency across the collections – the choice of mouldings helps to create this.

Barrington Loines is now an official artist to the National Trust and it’s no surprise that the Trust wants Barrington to paint more of their 330 treasured properties – and they actually want all 330 done! But at a rate of two per year (each collection of six takes six months to complete) – he might run out of time…

In the meantime, he will continue to enjoy his painting, the exhibitions and seeing his work help to tell the National Trust story. There are all sorts of interesting ways that Barrington’s work is being merchandised including the original paintings, limited edition prints, open prints and greeting cards - all sold on an ongoing basis from the National Trust shops.

Now to almost underline this partnership, art-trails are being created around the properties, take a look at the plaques pictured far left – which are stunning signposts in their own right!

As a footnote, Barrington paints wildlife and horses too, and his wife Ann is also a talented artist. Her style is ‘representational abstract’ taking inspiration from the natural world and using a variety of mediums and stunning colours.

Find out more at www.loinesgallery.co.uk and follow him on Instagram

@Barrington.Loines

Alberto Cacace is a very talented man! His latest achievement is winning a Larson-Juhl scholarship place with the Fine Art Trade Guild, which he is already benefitting from having recently spent two days on a training course at The Framing Lot in Devon with Alec & Jo Palmer and Ian Kenny from Ian Kenny Framing. Larson-Juhl’s sales & marketing director Matt George was also in attendance and 4walls took this opportunity to find out more!

Originally from Napoli, Alberto has painted since he was five-years-old but his journey to becoming a professional artist was by no means straightforward and took many fascinating turns along the way.

At the age of 18 and now living in the UK, Alberto trained as a CAD designer and then went on to work as an architectural technician for nine years. The recession in the 90s brought a change in career. Gymnastics was already his sport but he took this opportunity to become a professional coach – going on to lead the British Gymnastics team! Come 1996, marriage to Kathryn and the subsequent arrival of daughters Francesca and Rebecca meant having a more conventional job in the form of IT sales management in data storage alongside his sporting commitments. In 2012, he again became a full-time gymnastics coach, and this continued until 2019 when he started working for South Central Ambulance - Patient Transport. He still does this part-time, but throughout the

2010s he kept up his painting and started to frame his own work.

He acquired second-hand Morso, Keencut and Pistorious machines and basically taught himself. Then in 2020, Alberto decided his passion for art needed to be given more time and so he converted what was an old cowshed into a studio. He began doing more and more commissions and belArto was born! (belArto being an anagram of Alberto – of course!) He works in oil, watercolour, acrylic and mixed media and his subject matter has varied over the years from land-seascapes to people and pet portraits; and more recently loosening his style with abstract work.

In 2022, he upgraded his framing equipment with an Alphamacchine underpinner and a Keencut Futura mount cutter, and as his art and framing offer gained more and more interest he got into sustainability, and he then joined the FATG.