Liberty

Liberty
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Good work and good quatation, Michael.

Super writer and man. Like Malcolm Muggeridge, he was enthusiastic about the communist cause when he was young but realised that 'power corrupts'even those who seem wise and good.

Thanks Cesare and Stephen.

Thanks Margaret. I hadn't realised he had such strangely shaped ears.

Great portrait Michael, I think your choice of a limited palette makes it.

Thanks Fiona. The ears make it.

Good job Michael, cannot say I enjoyed his work, but have enjoyed this portrait.

Thanks Andre. He reminds us of the constant threat from fascism.

Great painting and no truer words said/written. Don't get me started ....

Thanks Gudrun. We share that principle strongly then.

Hang on Studio Wall
09/11/2017
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Watercolour. 'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'. (George Orwell)

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Michael Mcmanus

I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…

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