Category: Magical Realism
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Le Retour aux Sources / Return to the Source
Read more: Le Retour aux Sources / Return to the SourceLe Retour aux Sources or Return to the Source, was originally just called ‘Rock’ in her diary but was renamed a little after its completion. Another one of my mother’s paintings inspired by a dream. Very fortunately….
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Le Rêve / The Dream
Read more: Le Rêve / The DreamLa Rêve (The Dream) was of course, inspired by a dream my mother had. At this time she had taken to recording some of her dreams in a Dream Journal…
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The Oyster Nymphs II / Les Nymphes aux Huitres II
Read more: The Oyster Nymphs II / Les Nymphes aux Huitres IIAfter the general appreciation and enthusiasm over The Oyster Nymphs, my mother decided to make a follow-up version, The Oyster Nymphs II. The second painting has one more water nymph and it seems to …..
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The Oyster Nymphs / Les Nymphes aux Huitres
Read more: The Oyster Nymphs / Les Nymphes aux HuitresThe concept for The Oyster Nymphs came to my mother one morning while she was waiting in vain for a model, Chantel to sit for the Happily Ever After painting. It seems she put her time to good use and …..
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La Sourcière / The Water Diviner
Read more: La Sourcière / The Water DivinerLa Sourciere / The Water Diviner was one of the first paintings my mother completed after moving into her new flat in Fayence, see the My Dilemma painting for details of the move. A letter she sent to me……
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Fantasy at Dawn / Euphorie au Petit Matin
Read more: Fantasy at Dawn / Euphorie au Petit MatinOne can see in the painting the particular issues Conrad was facing. Obviously there is the party and drink aspect which could not be more directly represented than by having his head in the bottom of a wine glass, but as Conrad himself pointed out to me on a later visit, it was not without…
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Daydreams
Read more: DaydreamsDaydreams is a painting I know little about except for the approximate date it was painted, the early sixties. I first saw it as a very poor quality small colour photograph she….