This project began with the photographing of photogravure printed images from “The Book of Fair Women” (1922), a collection of portraits by E. O. Hoppé. I was drawn to the possibility of transforming a selection of the portraits by adding aggressive cropping and the overlaying of photographed fragments of oil paintings on hardboard that add color, lines and shapes to make something new or at least more reflective of the world we live in. A world where images of catastrophic destruction of towns and cities torn apart by climate induced disasters, terrorism and war fill our screens and newspapers. It is what I see.
Viscountess Madistone, US
Anonymous, Haiti
Princes White Deer
Hebe, United Kingdom
Olga Morrison, Norway
Naoko Shimatzu, Japan
Grace D'Arcy, Ireland
Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, UK
Malvina Longfellow, US
Sophia, Fedorova, Russia
Anonymous, Cuba