Supporting The Royal British Legion
Launched at a private viewat Castle Fine Art in central London at the end of September 2014, The EleventhHour collection of some 30 paintings was exhibited for twoweeks in advance of Remembrance Day amonth later. The first of the series - The EleventhHour No. 1 –was gifted by Scarlett to The Royal British Legion for auction at the Poppy Ball, its prestigious annual fund-raising event. Working collaborativelywith The Royal British Legion, the paintingwas put on display in Trafalgar Square as part of the Armistice Day commemorative gathering in November, with a unique partnership with augmented reality company Blippar making it theworld's first piece of digitally interactive art. By downloading a free app, viewers couldmove their smartphones across the painting, bringing its layers to life and showing the process of creating it from blank canvas to finishedwork. Music to accompany the experiencewas written and performed by Scarlett's father Raphael Ravenscroft, known for his haunting saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street. "Every poppy inmy paintings represents individual soldiers as well as their collective emotional experience," said Scarlett "and I wanted to conveywhat theymean separately as well as together. The paintings aremyway of showingmy respect and gratitude to themall, and helping new generations engagewith their sacrifice and bravery and remember them too. I feel very honoured to be part of what The Royal British Legion is doing."
� TheEleventhHourNo.1 Boxedcanvas Editionof 100 FramedSize 391/2”x391/2” Framed£1,295 £100donationtoThe RoyalBritishLegionfrom eachsale
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