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A series of crayon drawings on paper portraying older women who have become style icons by embracing their age and their love of dressing up.  

These detailed painted wooden cabinets, with images appropriated from a selection of historical portraits of women, dating from 1445 to 1846, are part of my research into celebrity status from the past. “The painted frame and wood effects are executed with detailed accuracy creating tromp-l’oeil illusions. Inside each cabinet, there is a surprise: yet another…

A series of paintings of Toiles de Jouy paintings on wood. ‘A toile de Jouy of a gay design replaced the rich but dreary damask. Pleasure established itself in the alcove, in the place of the luxury that had occupied it previously.” Jean-Claude Gorgy, 1789