The Tailor of Jakarta

2022 No1991 The Tailor of Jackarta
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Smashing observational and painting skills

Thank you all: Christine, Heather, Spencer and Dixie. The image here is not great - rather flat. It's a bit better in reality.

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04/05/2022
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20 x 20 cm, acrylic. I saw this enterprising young fellow at work in the road outside my son’s house when he lived in Jakarta. Such a wonderful idea but a heavy contraption to peddle around! He’s been on my list to paint since before The Time of Covid. Title is a bit of a play on the John Le Carre book 'The Tailor of Panama'.

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Alix Baker

After art school in London I spent several years in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Busy jobs suspended my art side and eventually I left to devote more time to it. For the greater part of my art career I was one of the UK's leading military artists specialising in military dress through the…

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