Salt and Pepper Still Lifes Rural life hadn’t changed much

Rural life hadn’t changed much up until the Great War and comely young milk maids were a popular inspiration for many of the leading painters of the day

Later in life she was to marry the sculptor James Butler RA (1931-2022) and according to the Guardian is now a published crime novelist writing as Liza Cody

I’m not sure if this is a portrait from life or Levenson’s imagined ideal

trying to get warmth from the sunlight through the window but she feels very insubstantial

We have a few thousand mid-century Nordic paintings that live in our Cecil Court basement

Salt and Pepper Still Lifes Rural life hadn’t changed much