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The retired pharmacist (2006)Oil painting by Richard Meyer
69 x 69 x 3cm (framed)
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Original artwork description
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My dear friend and, at times saviour, Sheila at the window of her Cornish cottage on the Pencarrow estate. She was tap-tapping away at her old typewriter in an upstairs bedroom when I arrived and came to the window. We talked a while like this before she came down, probably to make herb tea, I took a photograph as I couldn't ask her to stay like that while I drew her. It was the last time I saw her in that lovely old cottage strewn with roses - her passion. The cottage is now sold and lost because soon after this visit she had a major stroke. Miraculously she survived and now writes me the most gorgeously indecipherable letters. I would love to give her the painting but am too embarrassed to suggest it... maybe I simply still fear rejection.
Post script (2015). Sheila has now sadly died.
Materials used:
Spectrum oil paint, knives, sticks, paste medium.
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 69 x 69 x 3cm (framed)
- Framed and ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
Available to a good home, please email Richard if you would like to discuss this [rm]
My dear friend and, at times saviour, Sheila at the window of her Cornish cottage on the Pencarrow estate. She was tap-tapping away at her old typewriter in an upstairs bedroom when I arrived and came to the window. We talked a while like this before she came down, probably to make herb tea, I took a photograph as I couldn't ask her to stay like that while I drew her. It was the last time I saw her in that lovely old cottage strewn with roses - her passion. The cottage is now sold and lost because soon after this visit she had a major stroke. Miraculously she survived and now writes me the most gorgeously indecipherable letters. I would love to give her the painting but am too embarrassed to suggest it... maybe I simply still fear rejection.
Post script (2015). Sheila has now sadly died.
Materials used:
Spectrum oil paint, knives, sticks, paste medium.
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 69 x 69 x 3cm (framed)
- Framed and ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Richard Meyer
United Kingdom
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