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# Flying Friend
- URL: https://www.galleryxscarborough.com/portfolio/fatherly-guidance-x/
- Published: 2024-05-13T18:35:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-20T01:14:10.000Z
- Description: Oil on canvas
- Author: GalleryX Staff
- Tags: Portfolio, Joy MacFadyen

Joy’s husband is famous for his WWII work in the air force squadron as a flying ace with many military decorations. The subject of this portrait was a relative of Don’s squadron friend and was painted like many of Joy’s portraits as a commemorative memorial of someone who has left this world. Joy never actually met this gentleman but the family was more than happy to receive this celebratory likeness as a comfort to his mother. Often the greater significance of the painted portrait has very little to do with the artist.

Oil on canvas. Photo credit: Joy MacFadyen.