'A Last Hurrah'

After the exhibition, held to celebrate my 90 th birthday, which consisted of work from my student

 days and the years before 1970, when I gave up painting to concentrate on my  second career. 

This small exhibition shows some of my work since retiring about four years ago. They

demonstrate what I can do, rather than what I might want to do, as mobility and strength

have weakened. It has not been easy to find a style of my own again after such a long break

and having to work on only a scale with which I can cope.

There are two life drawings done in the Back Schools of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1952

compared with some quick sketches recently done in the life class held in this Gallery.

Please enjoy what you can, as sadly there won’t be any more.

Sheila Landi