Gabi (not for the pot)
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Gabi is a researcher and a film maker. She kept chickens as a child in Ireland where she grew up, before moving to London. Chicken keeping was one of the pulls of moving back to the countryside a few years ago. This painting was done in the summer of 2020, between lockdowns here in England. The hen Maud, a Copper Maran, is confidently self possessed and named after Yeats’s muse.
About the Artist
Mark Fennell
Mark Fennell is a professional portrait painter who works to commission from his home studio in the hill top village of Brill in Buckinghamshire. He works predominantly in oils, notable sitters include Antony Worrall Thompson, John Hood, Lord Mayor of Birmingham and singer - songwriter John…
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