Would you like to come for tea? show_depth Spear had a long and

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

It is looser and more Parisian than his later works and as it surfaced in America it could well be one of the many wealthy heiresses wearing a furrow between New York and London at the time

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

I particularly admire his attention to composition and the under standing of where the viewer’s eye needs to be led

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

Would you like to come for tea? show_depth Spear had a long andThe 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