Early
this year Valerie commissioned me to paint a portrait of her late
mother Ellen and sent me some photos to work from. Among these was one
of Ellen as a young mother with baby Val. I finished the portrait
recently and today the baby - now a beautiful and brilliant young lawyer
in Vancouver - came over and saw the painting for the first time.
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| Ellen and baby Valerie. NdA 2019. Oil on canvas 14 x 18 inches. |
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| Valerie and portrait of herself as baby with her young mother Ellen. Photo taken by Natalie 30th July 2019 |
A significant thing is that Valerie and I are sort of related. Not
blood-related, more a circumstantial kind of relationship: her la
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father Reg was married to me before his marriage to her Mum Ellen. It
was and is all fine and what's interesting is that it feels as if Val
and I are literally related, we get on so well. I also wish I looked
more like her than like me but that's beside the point.
I'm so happy
that this portrait will soon be hanging in her home, next to the
portrait of Reg I painted in Mexico long before she was born.
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| Portrait of Reg Dixon by NdA. San Miguel de Allende, Mexico 1956. Duco on board. |
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