Janet McAusland
Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 50.8 cm, 1989
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Jane McAusland, one of the world's foremost conservators, is a friend long close and it now seems obscure why we have only recently got around to working together on a portrait. The Sharaku Actors on the wall behind her recollect the time we spent together in Japan in 1985, and the hint of the Senufo chair she is sitting on reflects our mutual interest in African art. The Japanese prints whose shape is echoed by the picture as a whole also refer to her work as a paper restorer.

The Portrait Works (1989),  p. 98-99.

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