Oil pastel on canvas board 40 x 30cm

This commission was a client’s mother who used to draw little pictures as she told her granddaughter stories. I love the intensity of the child’s gaze and the relationship captured between the two - you can tell she was a good storyteller!

The oil pastel drawing was for a client I met by chance when hanging a print of ‘Wednesday Lunch’ in Em’s cafe Whetstone. She said the elderly woman in the painting reminded her of her mother who sadly passed away in the pandemic.

She chose this image of her mother telling stories to her now adult daughter.