Dr Bach aka Daddy on New Year’s Day 2020 | Pencil on Paper | 21 x 14cm | January 2020
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When we were children, daddy would make for each of us our own unique concoction of the Bach Flower Remedies. I needed cherry plum, mustard and something else I can’t remember. We have called him Dr Bach since. I used to get embarrassed by him telling every chemist in the land to stock it, he wasn’t a sales man and didn’t get commissions, but he wanted everyone to stop using pharmaceuticals and use holistic remedies instead. Looking back I didn’t know how progressive he was. He was a non-drinking, non-smoking daddy in the eighties in Northern Ireland. He was also a fanatic about Celtic Football club and pub quizzes but didn’t like the pub, so he got all his football from his own TV and made up his own quizzes. We got BSkyB when we were kids just so daddy could watch Celtic play without going to the pub. It was an intro into ‘In Living Colour’ for me, so I am eternally grateful for his fanaticism.
He has seven children and has always maintained that each of us are loved equally, but I know I am his favourite 😉
He sat for this on New Years Day this year. Daddy was my first portrait subject who wasn’t myself.
I am very lucky he is safe and well cocooning in Irvinestown with mummy. I can’t wait to see them when this is over.
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When we were children, daddy would make for each of us our own unique concoction of the Bach Flower Remedies. I needed cherry plum, mustard and something else I can’t remember. We have called him Dr Bach since. I used to get embarrassed by him telling every chemist in the land to stock it, he wasn’t a sales man and didn’t get commissions, but he wanted everyone to stop using pharmaceuticals and use holistic remedies instead. Looking back I didn’t know how progressive he was. He was a non-drinking, non-smoking daddy in the eighties in Northern Ireland. He was also a fanatic about Celtic Football club and pub quizzes but didn’t like the pub, so he got all his football from his own TV and made up his own quizzes. We got BSkyB when we were kids just so daddy could watch Celtic play without going to the pub. It was an intro into ‘In Living Colour’ for me, so I am eternally grateful for his fanaticism.
He has seven children and has always maintained that each of us are loved equally, but I know I am his favourite 😉
He sat for this on New Years Day this year. Daddy was my first portrait subject who wasn’t myself.
I am very lucky he is safe and well cocooning in Irvinestown with mummy. I can’t wait to see them when this is over.
