THE US OPEN CHAMPION 2021

Created from the paintng MAGIC IN NEW YORK

by LEIGHTON CHARLES.

The most wondrous and captivating sports achievement in history! Emma Raducanu, the eighteen year old professional tennis player arrives in New York as part of a seven-week tour of America. Just months into her career, Emma Raducanu wins ten matches in a row to take the tilte at the US open Championships of 2021.

The Artist Leighton Charles has painted his own special tribute painting and it's titled MAGIC IN NEW YORK.

Romantic Surrealist, Leighton Charles has painted tributes to many famous people that have inspired him. Tamara De Lempicka (Central to the ArtDeco movement), Jane Morris (the iconic model whose face dominates so many of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Eleanor Elizabeth Siddal (the model for Millaise's Ophelia and Rossetti's future bride. Charles has also painted Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire and Marilyn Monroe in a picture titled The American Songbook! Also portrayed by Charles are the legendary Dr Johnson with Mrs Thrale, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and historian John Ruskin.

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