Weak at the knees Still Lifes A window on the Paris

A window on the Paris theatres between the wars that hadn’t changed much since Lautrec’s day

but he captures a moment in a life

This is a wonderful image

possibly a device to discretely spare his sitter’s blushes

Ghiglia spent most of the 1960s in California

Weak at the knees Still Lifes A window on the ParisThe 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