Jean Eveleigh 2022 30 x 22.9 cm unframed, watercolour

This is my latest painting of the fabulous model Jean Eveleigh in my Scars and all Painting series. Jean has Perthes Disease – This is Jean’s story in her own words “Perthes is a birth/gestation defect where the bones to the hips do not get/develop a good blood supply and so are weaker than normal bone is. The surgery was to try to correct the perthes disease they opened me up and cut the entire top of my thigh bone off, rotated it 180o and then reattached it so that the less damaged part of the ball was the part I would be walking/weight bearing on.” Jean had the operation on her hip at the tender age of 5. Jean also has other health conditions including EDS. Thank you so much for the lovely reference photies and modelling for the series. https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/…/condit…/perthes-disease.aspx… here is some info about Perthes disease