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The Good Girl, 2025 Oil and mixed media on panel in antique frame with hand-painted detail, 79 × 70 × 7 cm Available.
This small painting has been with me for a while. It began as something private — a figure from my own family history, but it grew into a feeling that I think many of us have experienced.
She is perhaps six or seven years old. She looks out steadily, neither smiling nor unhappy, with the particular composure of a child who has accepted that she has to be good. Around her, lilies press in from every side.
I chose lilies deliberately. In the language of flowers, they carry associations of purity and innocence, of lives cut short, of remembrance. But there is something else about them too — their heaviness, their insistence. They are not entirely comfortable company.
The frame is part of the painting. I am drawn to antique frames because they carry their own history — the worn patina, the layers of paint and time. Placing a new portrait inside one feels like a quiet conversation between past and present. This child belongs to both.
The Good Girl is available. If she speaks to you, please get in touch.