‘Pauline from Fenham’, (2012), Oil on Linen, 60 x 120 cm.  2012

Pauline Armstrong (b 16 May 1938) was an attractive art student I met at art school in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1956. She studied fine art and textile design and lived in Newminster Road, Fenham a western suburb of the city. From the red brick, semi-detached houses it was obviously a lower middle class area. Pauline approximated to the ideal type of female I desired at the t...