• Sharon 15 x 20 inches

  • Sean 23 x 15 inches

  • Young Woman 18 x 12 inches

  • Simon 23 x 10 inches

  • Letmiya 24 x 14 inches

  • The Linen Shirt 20 x 26 inches

  • Beatrice 19 x 32 inches

  • Vijay 14 x 12 inches

  • The Silk Pyjamas 12 x 13 inches

  • Mum’s Hands 7 x 9 inches

  • The Far View 20 x 12 inches

  • Bob 11½ x 10 inches

  • Rose 18 x 25 inches

  • Ruth 12 x 12 inches

“In the portraits Fanny pulls something extraordinary out of her subjects.
And in the quiet portraits, her subjects pull something extraordinary out of her.”

The Quiet Portraits

The Quiet Portraits particularly use the combinations of light, colour and shape that spontaneously and momentarily come together to make the utterly beautiful images that I look for and can see in ‘flashes’.

Without the compelling power of the full face, a quiet and discreet beauty pervades the whole painting. They are side-long glance paintings that make us feel as if we are there with the subjects, who absorbed by something unknown, are unaware of us, or of themselves.

Yet these are still portraits, recognisable to anyone who knows the subject by their body shape and the way that they hold themselves – in the same way that you can recognise a friend in the far distance by their walk. And they are simply a beautiful painting of a human being to anyone that doesn’t know them.

It suits them to be smaller than the full portraits, and to be painted more loosely.

Visit the Studio

The Studio is very near the American Embassy in Nine Elms, London. Please contact me and come and visit, have a cup of tea and see what’s on the easel.