Tommy

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A very evocative image Richard, and from your description, planned with emotion which has made it a beautiful composition and painting. I hope it does well.

I agree with Fiona. You have a lovely gallery and I particularly like this picture :)

Thank you both for your kind comments.

"Tommy" depicts a WW1 soldier wading through a field of poppies in France some time during the 1914 - 1918 Great War. I was inspired to paint this when I was told by a visitor to my stand at an art show that 2011 was the Royal British Legion's 90th Anniversary. The visitor saw some of my poppy paintings and suggested that I should donate part of the sale proceeds to the Legion. I thought that I would go one better and donate a special painting for auction, along with the proceeds from the sale of prints and cards.The original idea for this painting had already come to me when I was watching the 2007 movie 'Atonement', in which there is a brief scene of a soldier walking through a poppy field during the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940. My wife said at the time that this would make a good painting. I decided that in keeping with the British Legion's anniversary and John McCrae's famous poem 'In Flanders Fields' that inspired the poppy as a symbol of remembrance, a WW1 soldier would be mo