Virginia Hall DSC Croix de Guerre MBE was the top US spy in France in WW2...incredibly brave and funny, she had a wooden leg she called Cuthbert...she's another icon...this painting is based on her Nazi wanted poster (they gave her the code name Artemis) which I have coopted and placed against a tricolour. My dad knew her in the 50's when she was at the CIA..I remember her coming round for dinner, she was great...I loved Cuthbert too...she got on well with my mum...my mum was a dress designer for Jaeger..they were both VERY stylish..looking forward to the film this year..hope they do her justice...a truly great and genuine hero...loved painting this and remembering her
Bamburgh Castle
Virginia Hall DSC Croix de Guerre MBE was the top US spy in France in WW2...incredibly brave and funny, she had a wooden leg she called Cuthbert...she's another icon...this painting is based on her Nazi wanted poster (they gave her the code name Artemis) which I have coopted and placed against a tricolour. My dad knew her in the 50's when she was at the CIA..I remember her coming round for dinner, she was great...I loved Cuthbert too...she got on well with my mum...my mum was a dress designer for Jaeger..they were both VERY stylish..looking forward to the film this year..hope they do her justice...a truly great and genuine hero...loved painting this and remembering her
A little escapee Herring. Painted using Winsor and Newton Watercolours on 300gsm Archival paper.
Aldous took acid with my dad in 1950's...they discussed Utopianism and cities of The Future...but my dad was drawn into nuclear war planning after the Cuban Missile Crisis and Aldous died on acid in 1963... the same day as JFK...I remember running to a nuclear bunker that day ...the British government thought it was the start of WW3...so did my dad...my dad gave me his signed copy of Aldous's amazing The Doors of Perception; Heaven and Hell for my 18th birthday...