Harrods Still Lifes If you’ve been with us

If you’ve been with us on our gallery journey for the last two decades you’ll already know all about this wonderful Scottish painter printmaker

one of ten siblings and elder brother to Queen Elizabeth

The Hanged Man still has his legs crossed here in the shape of the number 4 - which is something significant in Tarot - it indicates a benign ruler

I imagined that it was a very stylised portrait but found an old black and white image of the young socialite at a ball in 1945 and it’s a pretty good likeness

I made this painting at the same time as the Birth of Aphrodite so much of what I said about that painting

Harrods Still Lifes If you’ve been with usIn our Cecil Court Gallery