David Rankin 'Brown Lily' pop 'In the Garden of Childhood'

'In the Garden of Childhood' 1971

and a pensive Alice at the image’s heart

” serves as a metaphor for both exposure and concealment

book in at the ‘Laurellen’ before the best spots are taken

David Rankin 'Brown Lily' pop 'In the Garden of Childhood'Brown Lily is a portrait of David Rankins wife, Lily Brett. An author and Holocaust survivor, Rankin is profoundly inspired by his wifes life, illustrating two of her books about the Holocaust and producing a series pivoted around Jewish and matrimonial themes. This particular work (in a different colour) even graced the cover of Brett's 2021 memoir 'Old Seems to be Other People'. Wide eyed, world weary and washed in colour, Rankins depiction is a