Brushing away the lockdown blues through art

Melbourne artist Sally Velevska says during the height of the lockdowns, many of her clients turned to custom art to help ease the reality of isolation from close family and relatives. Others wanted paintings of themselves in historic and fantasy settings, later gifting them to those they could not reach.

Oil on canvas by Sally Velevska's client who requested to be painted as Napoleon Bonaparte. Source: Supplied

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