Would you like to come for tea? show_depth "I first saw James’ incredible

"I first saw James’ incredible work at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ annual show

Spear had a long and presumably happy marriage to Mary who he remained with all his life

By the age of thirty she and her husband Ernst were in the centre of Parisian Café society

A time for reflecting

The creative elite had been holidaying or living there since the mid-nineteenth century and by the beginning of the next century it had become a relative safe-haven for the gay and lesbian community

Would you like to come for tea? show_depth "I first saw James’ incredibleThe Age Tanned Collection I have used pages from a 1902 edition of Florence Marryats novel My Own Child. The quaint chapter titles and the gorgeous Rich Tea biscuit colour of the pages really helped forming the ideas for these little paintings. Oil pastel, acrylic paint and drawing ink on age tanned vintage book pages & UV protective museum glass