Bound in Art
The acclaimed artist Thomas Ashcombe’s masterpiece painting, Vivienne, does more than reflect his deepest desires. She fulfills them.
Thick fog rolled off the Thames, darkened by coal dust, as it poured through London’s cobbled streets on the autumn eve of 1879. Street lanterns flickered, doing their best to hold off the dampening blanket of heavy moisture. I watched as my master, Thomas Ashcombe, pulled the crimson velvet drapes closed over the large front windows, marking the beginning of another evening in the solitary sanctuary of his sitting room....