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Reggie Stanton belongs to a particular and now largely vanished profession: the concept illustrator whose paintings sold ideas before anything was built. For roughly half a century his gouaches and renderings did the persuading in boardrooms and pitch meetings for the entertainment industry, yet almost none of that work was made to be exhibited. It existed to win the commission.

For decades, when asked whether he ever painted for himself, his answer was that deadlines left no room for that kind of luxury. Only latterly has he made the time. During the pandemic he completed a series of more than forty small paintings, each eight by ten inches, recording the scenery around the Port Orange City Center municipal complex in Florida, and he now maintains fine art and "pastime art" galleries on his site alongside the professional archives.