Dollectable, 20 x 16 Oil Painting

This painting is about what we want.  We want toys we do not have.  We want the past to not be so long ago.  We want the children to still be children again and not parents themselves.  This is a faithful reproduction of a 1980s photograph of three children standing before the window full of antique toys and their associated reflections in a lace-framed window of the Antique Dolls shop in Chester, England.  I painted it originally to capture the quaint scene of 'real life dolls' admiring 'antique' dolls and toys.  I see now, 35 years later, that there may be more to it.  We long for a simple past.