I am not going to sell this picture because a) I am too fond of it and b) my daughter is too, and she asked me not to sell it.
I know why we both feel attached to it, and that is because of the subject. We both love observing people travelling on public transport. I have done quite a bit of surreptitious sketching in this situation, and this painting was created from a quick scribble done on the tube in London.
This is one of my favourite kinds of moments - if I can manage to capture a little bit of the natural and beautiful magic and complexity of people's everyday lives, the activities they do all the time while being lost in their own thoughts, that means everything to me.
While I am on that subject - dear to my heart - here is another of the same kind of picture. A little moment half glimpsed, half invented, in the streets of Saffron Walden. It's called "East Street Post Office", and I am very proud of the Waitrose bag.
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