Art Inspired by Living The Dream In Spain

Caracatures:

Spending time on a course in North Devon, I sat and doodled awhile as I watched my fellow course participants – all youngish women (okay, there was a spread!). When I returned home, I found that I had the most amazing work in my notebook and started to create these black and white caracatures of my friends!

I call them The Crones – as each Woman I knew that inspired each picture was so wise in her own way, bringing to the group the most amazing energies.

All the caracatures are 45 x 35 cm in size and available in different qualities of print. The originals are also for sale.

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Elspeth – Luna

Jan – Seeing Woman

Mary – Tribal Tears

Elizabeth – Soul Song

After moving to Spain, I found two women here who’s faces required immortalisation in paint:

Luisa – Aims to Please

Andrée – Keep My Hair

Each of the caracatures holds essence, rather than fact, of the original model. I don’t try to create an absolute likeness, but I use aspects of the women concerned so that there is a definite resemblance, while turning a young, spritely creature into a Wise Old Crone!