I have just completed this painting for Royal Blind in Edinburgh, Scotland. This painting will be part of their first ever Royal Blind Week aiming to raise awareness and vital funds for the services they offer for the blind and partially sighted. The exhibition will be held at Gallery Seventeen in Edinburgh in late February and early March. A number of top Scottish artists such as Jolomo, Peter Howson and Marion Drummond among others will be participating in this exhibition as well. I am honored to have my work in such brilliant company and to be able help such an important institution.

In this mixed media painting on paper by American artist Megan Chapman, the silhouettes of several of the early students to benefit from the teachings of the Royal Blind float across the painted page and radiate out from a vintage map of Edinburgh and the Forth. Red lines connect the figures to each other and to the Royal Blind School which rises up behind them providing a sturdy foundation as the students open to the possibilities of the world. The painting reads, "we talked and told stories we would never forget and at once we could see."