Today’s focus is on an oil painting not so much for its own sake but for the hands that it went through before coming into mine. It was given to #JeremyMarshall. A man who worked in international banking or many years and ended his financial career as CEO of C. Hoare & Co. – the UK’s oldest private bank.He retired after being diagnosed with incurable cancer in 2016. He remains as Chairman of #ChristianityExplored,PastorTrainingInternational and #ChristianBooksWorldwide.

This artwork was given to him in by #VictorYushchenko in May of 1994. At that time Mr. Yushchenko was Governor of the National Bank of the Ukraine. He later became the third President of the Ukraine (2005-2010). The occasion was the opening of the new banknote printing plant in Kiev. The plant was opened by then President #LeonidKravchuk.

The painting is a still-life. The artwork is signed and dated 1990. The pottery in the work is certainly typical of that produced in the Ukraine. I do not know what the other symbols such as the flowers, wren and fruit mean if they are symbols at all.

A nicely painted piece with an interesting story to hold with it.