Portraits – living, dead and imagined

People – familiar, fantastical and unknown.

NURTURE / NATURE
A portrait of Alfie Purnell
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Edward Elgar – ‘VARIATIONS’
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.
ELGAR
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
SICK
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‘INFINITARIUM’

‘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

‘Many kinds of love’
(a portrait of Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey)
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‘The Eye of the Storm’
(a portrait of a challenging year)
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‘THE NARCISSIST’
(portrait for a friend)
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Sisters of the sea
‘SAINT PHILIP NERI’
‘SAINT MELANGELL’
‘SAINT CARILEFF’
‘SAINT GILES’