{"id":15634,"date":"2023-11-23T22:26:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/?post_type=friends&#038;p=15634"},"modified":"2023-11-23T22:49:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:49:01","slug":"james-lautenschlager","status":"publish","type":"friends","link":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/friends\/james-lautenschlager\/","title":{"rendered":"James Lautenschlager"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">My story is very basic and simple. 5 years ago I went to an art class, just a very casual one of 10 people. I was the only man and everyone else knew each other. It was a weekly thing and was really a hen party with some art on the side. But, through that I discovered I had a gift although very crude then. Over the next couple of years I developed on my own as that class folded. I met another proper art teacher (Loren Somerville from The Art Hub in Harthill)\u00a0 and went to a few of her classes and she still mentors me when I am doing a commission. I work in graphite, pastel and acrylic. I have exhibited and sold in some minor exhibitions locally but by word of mouth do mostly commission portrait work of animals and people although I was commissioned to draw a warship a few years ago and a landscape. I don&#8217;t have a website or social media. Only word of mouth. It is a hobby as I have my own Maintenance business trading in the Chester area as &#8220;The Handy Hubby&#8221;. I am hoping to retire from that and paint full time.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">In a nutshell that is it. I am 76 years old, Canadian and have been living here for 24 years with my British wife of 35 years. We live in Burwardsley.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15638,"template":"","class_list":["post-15634","friends","type-friends","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/friends\/15634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/friends"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/friends"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}