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Gorgeous colours, intricate textiles and a Pre-Raphaelite attention to detail animate Dora Holzhandler’s parkland paradise. Although the mother and child is a recognised Christian symbol, the presence of a second child widens the scope to evoke the warm intimacy of family life. Dora Holzhandler was born into a Polish-Jewish family in Paris in 1928. After the collapse of her father’s business, she spent her first six years with a Catholic family in Normandy. In 1934 she moved with her immediate family to London. Many members of her greater family, who remained behind, perished in the Holocaust. After the war, Holzhandler returned briefly to Paris before re-settling in London in 1948. She studied at the Anglo-French Art School (1948–1950), where her now celebrated, naïve style of painting was first recognised and encouraged.