Something beautiful & heartwarming to end the week? Yes?!
My mom sent me an email containing these whimisical love-stuffed images created by the illustrator Ronald Searle who has just passed away.
He created the drawings (in the 70s) for his wife Monica, while she suffered from a rare and virulent form of cancer. They depict the old house the couple had bought in the South of France pre-cancer and then restored for the next 5 years… Each time she underwent a treatment, she would have a drawing, ‘to cheer every dreaded chemotherapy session and evoke the blissful future ahead’…
Mrs Searle survived. As do the drawings as a symbol of love and gentle affection.
*happy sighs*
& Happy Friday Visionaries!
thea.
xx
