A new friend Black & White a hangover from the era

a hangover from the era of Victorian genre paintings but a very modern painting for 1889

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

Every day heroes

We have shown his paintings directly from his studio from time to time but this is an early work

the pedestal looks erroneously vertical

A new friend Black & White a hangover from the eraThe Age Tanned Collection I have used pages from a 1902 edition of Florence Marryats novel My Own Child. The quaint chapter titles and the gorgeous Rich Tea biscuit colour of the pages really helped forming the ideas for these little paintings. Oil pastel, acrylic paint and drawing ink on age tanned vintage book pages & UV protective museum glass