The Silent Listeners Black & White Doris with her windswept ears

Doris with her windswept ears is focusing more keenly on what she might have for dinner

Spine of Charles Dickens: Collected Essays (1902)

beside or in front

"This is I believe what historians would call a ‘mid-career’ work by Tägtström

a girl lost in thought or perhaps regret

The Silent Listeners Black & White Doris with her windswept earsThe 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