Wednesday 23 February 2011
My mother was a fashion illustrator...
And she was one of a very few working in Dublin in the seventies and eighties. She illustrated ads for Dublin department stores such as Switzers and Boyers and perhaps most interestingly for Penny's who had just opened and were as cheap as ever. I've been digging through her old portfolios and drawing books and found some that I thought were lovely...
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Hi Alex: very nice drawings!! Now, we know where you get all your artistic talent: like mother like daughter. I can’t draw a straight line. I tried art in the first grade and after my first drawing, my teacher told me to take glee club:)
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