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Pink Hat – Original Relic Box

Pink Hat is an original character painting from my Owd Lasses collection — a familiar face with a story you might almost remember.

People you’ve never met. Faces you somehow remember.

She was at every family do in that pink hat.

Nobody was entirely sure whose side of the family she belonged to. Nobody thought to ask. She simply appeared at weddings, christenings and family gatherings as though she’d always been there.

Kind eyes. A handbag kept firmly on her lap. The faint smell of mint humbugs and Tweed perfume left in her wake.

Pink Hat is one of my narrative character paintings, inspired by those wonderfully familiar people who inhabit our memories even when we can no longer quite place them.

The original painting has been presented as a Relic Box — turning the character into something between an artwork, a keepsake and a little piece of imagined social history.

It isn’t intended to be a portrait of one particular woman.

And yet you may feel certain you knew her.

That is the idea behind these pieces: art that feels familiar, with a story — even if it isn’t yours.

The Relic Box

This original character painting is presented as a one of a kind original artwork, not a reproduction.

Each Relic Box is individually created as a one-off piece, bringing together my figurative painting with the feeling of a treasured object discovered in a drawer, handbag or old family cupboard. There’s a back story and QR code playlist too.

Original artwork
One of a kind
Signed by Sue Dewhurst
£345

Created in my studio in West Wales.

If Pink Hat reminds you of somebody, I’d love to know who. Check out other Owd Lasses and character paintings here