Smells like rain reserved This is pure 1950s nostalgia

This is pure 1950s nostalgia

educator and latterly a potter of some renown

This painting has now sold

In the early twentieth century Kauffman lived and worked in the States as a portrait painter and sculptor but nothing else is recorded

I chose this short 1894 novel for the lovely italic capitals used on each of the 39 chapter headings

Smells like rain reserved This is pure 1950s nostalgiaThe 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