Un Souffle de Renaissance or Breath of the Renaissance is finally a painting I know something about as its me, (Anthony, her youngest son). This was a real struggle to get painted during a brief vacation the year after I graduated from Duke University in the USA. You can see from the diary entries below…

Francesca Banteruck was another portrait commission done on short notice during the summer holiday time while relatives were visiting my mother’s very close friends, David and Francis Randall. It’s interesting to see,,,,,

Nora Azzapardi and her husband Eric, were friends from the UK visiting my mother’s very good friends Jane and Ray Lench. So of course my mother agreed to do a commissioned portrait of Nora on,,,,,

Sally was a portrait of Sally Bemister, my mother’s niece. After hearing of her death from cancer my mother painted it as gift to her Uncle Bertie. If we read the diaries we can see ….