David Rankin 'Brown Lily' pop Hall captures his charisma –

Hall captures his charisma – its gleam and edge

There are no tears to paper margin or disruption to the ink

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

and a pensive Alice at the image’s heart

With a title that playfully alludes to the intense vigilance of the birds

David Rankin 'Brown Lily' pop Hall captures his charisma –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