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I Should Like So Much to Play

By Olivia Irvine 2021

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40x40

This is an oil painting with details painted in egg tempera. It shows several children playing in a room. They are wearing pyjamas, but light is streaming in through the window. The title is a line from a poem 'Bed By Day' by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was exhibited in the ING Discerning Eye exhibition in 2021.
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