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About Veronica Knox

Veronica Knox has a Fine Arts Degree from the University of Alberta, where she studied Art History, Classical Studies, and Painting. In her career as a graphic designer, illustrator, private art teacher, and ‘fine artist,’ she has also worked with the brain-injured and autistic, developing new theories of hand-to-eye-to-mind connection. Veronica lives on the west coast of Canada, supporting local animal rescue shelters, painting, writing, editing other author’s novels, and championing the conservation of tigers and elephants, and their habitats. Her artwork and visuals to support ‘Second Lisa’ may be viewed on her website - www.veronicaknox.com

Cherry White

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Veronica Knox

I spy with my little eye something beginning with fire   Erased emotions quicken when ethics challenges the cold logic of a sentient computer, programmed to save lost art first, regardless of the consequences to those who created it. genre: … Continue reading →

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Erotic Million Dollar Leonardo Destroyed by an Hysterical Woman?

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Veronica Knox

One 17th century woman may have decided this painting was an image too far. The original version of ‘Leda and the Swan’ by Leonardo da Vinci was last seen in 1625 and believed to be destroyed on the grounds of … Continue reading →

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Twinter

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Veronica Knox

TWINTER = a story of winter, twins, science, and magic ‘Twinter- the first portal’ is a novel-length fantasy for middle-grade readers, age ten to eleven. Recommended for advanced readers. Twelve-year-old twins, Kit (a keen scientist) and Bash (a girl with … Continue reading →

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Birds and Bees

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Veronica Knox

 Genetics aside, hybrid creatures can inspire the multifaceted characters who inhabit paranormal fiction. Paranormal does not need to infer Gothic horror, but rather the magic of the imagination: time travel, fanciful species, dreams of living five-hundred years ago, indeed living … Continue reading →

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Loving Botticelli

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Veronica Knox

I love the concept of a painting interacting with a viewer. ‘The Portrait of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde aged while the man remained young. I have always wanted to step into a narrative painting and look around behind the … Continue reading →

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A Sign of the Times?

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Veronica Knox

Artists were not permitted to sign their paintings in the fifteenth century. Even the subjects’ identities were disguised under a layer of flattering (or covertly unflattering) iconography. Anagrams, puns, links to family crests, and professed virtues linger under ambiguous titles … Continue reading →

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Seeing Double

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Veronica Knox

Leonardo painted two ‘Madonna of the Rocks,’ so why not two Mona Lisas? Provenance is sketchy, but amongst the many copies of the ‘Mona Lisa’ by Leonardo’s students and admirers, one stands out as a possible second ‘Lisa.’ Spectro cameras … Continue reading →

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What Raphael Saw

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Veronica Knox

This is Raphael’s drawing of the ‘Mona Lisa,’ executed in situ when Leonardo da Vinci’s ground-breaking portrait was displayed for artist’s to copy, in 1504. Raphael was a faithful draftsman, so there’s no reason to believe he strayed from what … Continue reading →

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Walking on Venus

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Veronica Knox

When a mural painter has no ladder there are always alternative canvasses. I illustrate floors and tabletops and doors. This ‘Venus underfoot’ is from a renaissance hallway in the art gallery I used to own near Inverness, Scotland. Another of … Continue reading →

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Is Tom Cruise a Time Traveller?

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Veronica Knox

This is the self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, age 24, from his Adoration of the Magi – 1475. Leonardo never finished this painting. He shows himself here (on the right side of the adoration) in the classic convention of the … Continue reading →

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