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image captionResident Lyn Irwin-Porter said seeing the portraits all together made her feel happy
Shielding retirement home residents said they felt more “connected” after their portraits were painted during the lockdown.
Dr Marylane Barfield decided to paint her fellow residents at Magpie Court in Hanham, near Bristol, to help keep her “sane”.
The 14 portraits are being revealed to the subjects during December 2020.
The paintings will also be exhibited at the Royal Birmingham Society of Art in 2021.
They were created from photographs as the residents within the retirement village are all shielding currently.
Dr Barfield was originally born in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Fine Art, settled in Birmingham in the UK, and has spent her life as a professional artist.
Alys Woodman was an accomplished painter, one of the Malvern school of artists, with several works exhibited. perhaps less well-known was her bravery during the Second World War when confronted by a German airman. Local family historian Chris Sutton, whose recent article on the 1939 National Register sparked much interest, looks back at events that night ALICE Woodman lived at Kinley Cottage in Upper Welland. Her 1939 Register details tell us she was looking after her parents and she was born in 1897. Nothing more than that, but there was a lot more to Alice. In the early hours of July 31 1942 dozens of Civil Defence members were out looking for four Luftwaffe crew. At about 2am a plane had been shot down and crashed near Malvern Wells Common. All four of the crew had managed to bale out and the hunt was on to find them.
Alys Woodman was an accomplished painter, one of the Malvern school of artists, with several works exhibited. perhaps less well-known was her bravery during the Second World War when confronted by a German airman. Local family historian Chris Sutton, whose recent article on the 1939 National Register sparked much interest, looks back at events that night ALICE Woodman lived at Kinley Cottage in Upper Welland. Her 1939 Register details tell us she was looking after her parents and she was born in 1897. Nothing more than that, but there was a lot more to Alice. In the early hours of July 31 1942 dozens of Civil Defence members were out looking for four Luftwaffe crew. At about 2am a plane had been shot down and crashed near Malvern Wells Common. All four of the crew had managed to bale out and the hunt was on to find them.