Alice July 1953
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Pencil sketch of Alice, my wife's bridesmaid, sheltering under a wet copy of the Liverpool Echo, waiting in a queue on a wet July afternoon in 1953. She was an avid fan of Frank Sinatra who was appearing at the Liverpool Empire at the time. My wife was alongside her sheltering under a Marks and Spencer shopping bag.
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Tom Small
In 1979 my wife organised a series of painting lessons with a French Artist who taught art in a college in north west London. The painting lessons turned out to be anything but. For ten months he made me draw anything from toe nail clippings to the pieta and paintings in the various galleries…
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