Last blog we talked about ‘Who are you?’   We were then in the fairytale context of wonder.land and the question ‘Who are you?’ was the challenging line of the Caterpillar’s song.

This blog arises not from a Wonderland but from the very real world of today – the Paris terrorist attacks. The French President, Francoise Hollande, used the assertive phrase, Who We Are – Qui Nous Sommes, in his rallying response to what he called an Act of War.

This is not a political blog. It is a sharing of what seemed to us a remarkable but chilling coincidence. At the same time as we were hearing President Hollande on Television News, Penny was preparing a work, painted earlier in the year, for submission to an exhibition. The original title was Nous Sommes…

The title now had to be Qui Nous Sommes. Here it is:

Penny Fowler

Oil on Canvas  36″ x 36″