The Painter Gretna Campbell, 1986Copyright Peter Bellamy 2010
This is one of my favorite portraits because the art speaks. It
was a beautiful painting and Gretna was an accomplished painter, She
painted taught lived was married exhibited and so forth. I
liked that there was just the art, no fame, and no ego, just art. Women
artists could be like that - that they had a kind of beauty by not really
appearing to care about the trappings of male ego art. They were
just faithful to the brush and the canvas. Gretna
put me in touch with Robert DeNiro, Sr., the painter and father of
the actor, who I photographed but have never published.