Stanley Sir, RA Spencer

Stanley Spencer was the kind of artist who painted his wife’s face while she lay in bed, brush in one hand and toast in the other. He turned everyday moments into something quietly reverent, though his neighbors mostly just thought he was odd. Look up *Head of a Girl*—his pencil drawing of his first wife, Hilda—where a simple line catches the exact shape of her gaze, like he caught her between two sips of tea.