Janet Ogilvy
2026
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A Portrait of My Mother
This is a portrait of my mother, Janet Ogilvy, painted in 2026 to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of her birth.
I worked from an old photograph of her as a young woman, taken long before I was born. There's something rather special about looking at a photograph of your mother, or any loved one, and seeing them at an age when you didn't know them at all. It's like peering into the past from a time machine.
I wanted to capture her likeness as faithfully as I could, particularly her wonderful blue eyes. I also enjoyed painting her hairstyle, which is so characteristic of the 1940s, and of course the little cross she's wearing.
I finished and signed the painting on my own birthday. That made it feel even more personal and fitting, and it's a portrait I am especially pleased to have painted.
Ramsay Allan, 2026