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I am most grateful to photographer Peter White who kindly allowed me to use his shot of Aung San Auu Kyi for this work. Thank you so much peter.
Pastels on Tex Mi-Teintes paper A4
Aung San Suu Kyi, chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma and Nobel Peace laureate, has come to symbolise the struggle of Burma’s people to be free.
She has spent more than 15 years in detention, most of it under house arrest in Rangoon, thousands of miles from her husband and children in the UK. She was released from her third period of detention on Saturday 13th November 2010, she was one of the world’s most prominent political prisoners.
Aung San Suu Kyi received the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
On September 19, 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi was also presented with the Congressional Gold Medal, which is one of the highest civilian honour in the United States.
On 1st April 2012, her party, the National League for Democracy, announced that she was elected to the lower house of the Burmese parliament, her party also won 43 of the 45 vacant seats in the lower house.
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I’m most happy to be the very first one to leave a comment on this pastel. It’s a top hit définitif !
Quelle allure et quelle femme , on la retrouve absolument ici.
C’est un magnifique hommage que tu lui a fait là. Fantastic ma puce
Hey Corinnette!
Well, je la trouve un peu rose…. ha, ha, ha! On dirait qu’elle a une peau de bébé, quelle nouille je suis!
Je l’admire beaucoup cette femme, elle a beaucoup de courage et sous cet air serein se cache une force incroyable.
Thanks for your comment, lovely as always.
– Colombe Cambourne
Again, you’ve captured not just the image of the individual, but also the qualities that help make up this award winning humanitarian. It’s a pride driven “I will never give up look” you so successfully have protrayed Columbe. Wow what a portrait.
Thank you so much Jim. She is one of my favourite human being, I had to capture her on paper. I messed up the skin tones, but I don’t want to try to fix her, I’d mess her up completely…. I had to add a lot of yellow to the photo I took. Ha, ha, ha!
– Colombe Cambourne
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That’s wonderful Mary, thank you so much
– Colombe Cambourne
Another beauty Colombe. Look at her eyes, you can actually feel the vision that she has for her Burma. You always cature the charactor of the person you paint, you have an amazing feel for faces. Your recent faces don’t have many wrinkles, must the the face creams you can buy these days.
She doesn’t need wrinkles to be my favourite person, I admire her so much.
You want wrinkles? I have a cracker coming up…….. (Oh boy, I do sound very australian here…..)
Thank you again for your very encouraging thoughts, Mick.
– Colombe Cambourne
Look forward to seeing your cracker….oi,oi,oi
Gorgeous portrait!
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Oh wow Beatrice, this is different to me and REALLY nice! Thank so, so much!
– Colombe Cambourne
Congratulations on the feature – beautiful piece!
Thank you heaps Carole.
– Colombe Cambourne
Mille bravos for the pic of the week feature…..tu nous étonnes toujours
Ha, ha c’est chouette, j’étais sur Facebook!
– Colombe Cambourne
Excellent realism Colombe, congratulations.
Yay! Thank you heaps Gary!
– Colombe Cambourne