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THIS PAINTING HAS NOT YET BEEN SCANNED, SO IS NOT AVAILABLE AS A PRINT. PLEASE SEE "TOMMY" FOR A SIMILAR PAINTING IF YOU WANT TO BUY A PRINT.
"Tommy II" is a smaller version of the original painting "Tommy" that I painted to help raise money for the British Legion's 90th anniversary in 2011. The painting depicts a WW1 soldier wading through a field of poppies in France some time during the 1914 - 1918 Great War. All the profits from the sale of the original painting along with the proceeds from the sale of prints and cards will be donated to the Legion.
The original idea behind Tommy came to me when I was watching the 2007 movie 'Atonement', in which there is a brief scene of a soldier walking through a poppy field during the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940. My wife said at the time that this would make a good painting. I decided that in keeping with the British Legion's anniversary and John McCrae's famous poem "In Flanders Fields" that inspired the poppy as a symbol of remembra...

Award-winning artist, Richard Harpum, paints in a realist style, paying meticulous attention to detail. His medium of choice is acrylics on canvas or board but he also uses oils and paints watercolour florals. Richard's primary focus is landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes and gardens but he also paints portraits, still lifes and florals. The effective use of light is a key ingredient to all of Richard’s works and he spends a great deal of time before starting a painting in selecting a composition that provides both drama and contrast. Born in Bromley, England, in 1951, Richard has had a passion for drawing and painting from a very young age. As a youngster, he was always drawing and became a prolific painter after he received an...