Many years ago, I inherited a swag of vintage doilies from my late aunt, Eileen Klein. I had no real use for them, but didn’t have the heart to take them to the thrift shop. For as many years again, they languished in various drawers and cupboards in the flats and houses I’ve inhabited over the decades. Lately, however, they’ve taken on a new life. In Lady in Waiting, 2022 (pictured top) and several other paintings in Rückenfigur, my upcoming solo show at Queenscliff Gallery, they’ve become the basis for my protagonists’ decorative collars and shawls.
A couple of developmental views are below:
Images on the postcards pictured above: A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling, Jane Seymour and Portrait of a Woman from Southern Germany by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543). Holbein’s work has been a source of inspiration since my late teens when my mother presented me with a book of his drawings as a birthday gift.
Rückenfigur opens at Queenscliff Gallery on June 23 and runs to July 10, 2022.
The Opening Event is on Sunday June 26 from 2 - 4 pm.
P 03 4202 0942 | A 81 Hesse Street Queenscliff VIC 3225
For further information, including an invitation to Rückenfigur, scroll down to my previous post.