Category: Portraits
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Francesca
Read more: FrancescaFrancesca 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,,,,,
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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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Nora Azzapardi
Read more: Nora AzzapardiNora 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,,,,,
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Thomas Hardy
Read more: Thomas HardyI believe this painting of Thomas Hardy, poet and author, was commissioned by my mother’s step-father who thought it would sell during another Thomas Hardy themed event or festival held at…..
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Sally
Read more: SallySally 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 ….
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Sunee
Read more: SuneeI think my mother referred to this painting as the Thai Girl but I’m calling it the Thai Beauty so as not to confuse it with her earlier paintings of Thai children. This was the fourth….
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The Red Turban / Soie Rouge
Read more: The Red Turban / Soie RougeAt conception this was entitled ‘Enpassant’ or ‘Passing By’ but as the painting emerged, she found herself calling it The Red Turban or Soie Rouge. This was the third painting she did using her non dominant left hand after injuring her right hand and wrist. From the diary she mentions early on trying to use…
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The Refugees
Read more: The RefugeesAfter the success of her first left handed effort, ‘Child of Vietnam’, and the continuing news of the refugee crisis in Vietnam, my mother decided to paint a larger follow up painting, The Refugees. We can read in….
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Child of Vietnam
Read more: Child of VietnamPainted during the Vietnamese refugee crisis following the US pull-out form the war in Vietnam, this small canvas depicts an imagined child caught in the war.
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Diana/Diane
Read more: Diana/DianeDiana Raymakers was the daughter of Dr. G. Raymakers from Aarle-Rixtel in the Netherlands. They were vacationing in the area and saw my mother’s paintings in an exhibition in Seillans, a nearby village. Being fans of the Dutch painter Carel Willink they were taken with my mother’s use of symbolism in the background of her…