Girl With A Surgical Mask... by a frontline nurse
A FIRST-YEAR student nurse is raising money for charity by reimagining some of the world’s most popular paintings with a modern Covid-19 twist.
Chloe Slevin spent more than five hours painting Girl With A Surgical Mask while self-isolating at her Dublin home.
The painting is a nod to Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With A Pearl Earring, believed to date from around 1665.
The UCD student is auctioning the painting and giving all the proceeds to the Feed The Heroes charity – a campaign that delivers food to hospital and emergency workers.
Chloe, a first-year trainee children’s and general nurse, is currently working on a Covid-19 ward at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin as a healthcare assistant.
‘I made this when I was bored in quarantine, like I think a lot of people are, and I wanted to incorporate what is going on at the moment,’ she said. ‘It is a painting I really like and something I was familiar with but I wanted to make it my own. I added on the face masks to make it more modern because face masks are everywhere now.
‘I am also painting more in the same style and giving the same modern twist to it and will sell them for other charities.’
She added: ‘Any donations now are really important, because charities such as Pieta House couldn’t raise their usual earnings from the Darkness Into Light appeal so they are not getting the funding they are used to. To have any donations coming in is really helpful and Feed The Heroes is one that helps a lot of people.’