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The Purple Alps
Read more: The Purple AlpsThe Purple Alps was a small landscape painted while the family was on holiday in the South of France long before she emigrated there. This holiday was the planting of that seed, see,,,.
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The Rocks at Bagnols-en-Forêt
Read more: The Rocks at Bagnols-en-ForêtThis is a very small palette knife study done after a picnic beside the road near Bagnols-en-Forêt in Provence, in the south of France. We were on…
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Janet Chapman
Read more: Janet ChapmanJanet Chapman was a commissioned portrait. Janet and Malcom Chapman were the young couple who moved into my mother’s flat at #9 Riviera, after she moved to her house on Copsewood Avenue, see….
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Lt Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall M.P.
Read more: Lt Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall M.P.This portrait of Lt Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall M.P. was done as a commission for the Vintners’ Company in London. I think the commission was arranged by Harry Jackson-Pownall as Sir Assheton Pownall was an ancestor of his wife Marjorie. If you have read…
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The Unborn Child
Read more: The Unborn ChildThe Unborn Child, much like the similar Greif painting, was painted at a difficult time in my mother’s life. I think she drew on the emotions …
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The Dancer
Read more: The DancerThe Dancer is an interesting portrait that works to convey the subject matter through the combination of the title and the attitude of the pose. As this was an early work I know very little about….
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Victoria
Read more: VictoriaWe always referred to this painting as the “Old Lady” but from her portfolio I see that it was in fact called “Victoria”, I assume the name of the subject. This was a milestone painting…..
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Max
Read more: MaxA pencil sketch of the youngest son, Max, of my mother’s good friends, the Whites. This is one of a series she did of all three children.
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Children of Thailand II – girl
Read more: Children of Thailand II – girlChildren of Thailand II – girl, was the second of a pair of paintings my mother did as a commercial venture. I think it was a more innocent time back in