Jack Vettriano The Great Poet

Jack Vettriano The Great PoetJack Vettriano The Gathering CloudsJack Vettriano The First Audition
They stopped in a large room surrounded with mirrors on every side and containing an enormous wardrobe with light creeping through. Fire, Sugar and the Cat displayed a certain decision of taste. Fire, who only cared for red, at once chose a splendid Mephistopheles dress, with gold spangles. He put nothing on his head, for his bread was always very hot. Sugar could not stand anything except white and pale blue: bright colours jarred on his sweet, nature. The long blue and white dress which he selected and the pointed hat, like a candle extinguisher, which he wore on his head made him look perfectly ridiculous; but he was too silly to notice it and kept spinning before the glass like a top and admiring himself in blissful ignorance. its chinks. The Fairy Bérylune took a diamond key from her pocket and opened the wardrobe. One cry of amazement burst from every throat. Precious stuffs were seen piled one on the top of the other: mantles covered with gems, dresses of every sort and every country, pearl coronets, emerald necklaces, ruby bracelets... Never had the Children beheld such riches! As for the Things, their state was rather one of utter bewilderment; and this was only natural, when you think that they were seeing the world for the first time and that it showed itself to them in such a queer way. The Fairy helped them make their choice