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paintings evoke the taste, the smell, the feel of the fruit.
Hints of her past
In Purnell’s portraits, both oil paintings and drawings, there are again traces of surrealism and the fantastic, and hints of her past.
The wife of a foreign service officer, she spent two years in Liberia, West Africa and two years in Moscow.
Hands holding an orange are strong black hands, the hands of a Liberian. The orange is brilliantly orange, a fruit that was tree ripened under Lie not West African sun.
Her portraits of young women, all wreathed in luxuriant vegetation, show the influence of icons, the lumi
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