As a landscape painter, Deborah Mills isn’t in the habit of portraiture – but a surreptitious sketch she made of her daughter Katherine napping on the couch two decades ago has become an unlikely family treasure.
Done in pastels on the back of a postcard, Deborah soon forgot about the inconspicuous souvenir of a lazy afternoon . It was tucked away in a box of family mementos for years before it “re-emerged itself”, Katherine says.
