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A first year student nurse is raising money for charity by reimagining some of the world’s most popular paintings with a 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 funds to the Feed the Heroes charity, a campaign that delivers food to hospital and emergency workers.
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Ms Slevin, a 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.–PA