People – familiar, fantastical and unknown.
A portrait of Alfie Purnell
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The people (and dog) that inspired his ‘Variations on an original theme’
Popularly known as the Enigma Variations, it was written between October 1898 and February 1899, and is an orchestral work comprising fourteen variations on a single original theme.
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‘When open eyes are wide blue skies
The heart and mind grow fast entwined
And sleeping souls awake so then
What once we were, we are again’
WILD MAN #1
WILD MAN #2
WILD MAN #3
WILD MAN #4
(a portrait of Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey)
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(a portrait of a challenging year)
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(portrait for a friend)
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