This painting originally had a feeble sort of man approaching the table carrying a casserole. I called the picture "Supper Cooked For Her" and, once I had cut the dopey man off, I sold it at an exhibition at St. Cyriacs church in Swaffham Prior, near Cambridge.
I really had fun painting her. Her lovely, bold patterned dress just materialised (haha, one of those unconscious puns but I will leave it there) on the paper and it was all so easy and natural to do. Sometimes pictures just go like that. It doesn't happen very often, but it is such a gift when it does.
But I was left with the problem of the man, and there was only one brutal solution. He had to be deleted. And the bold woman was left alone with her thoughts.
By the time I had cut it in half, this was about A4 size and it was painted in gouache.
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