‘Still Life’ is an original 8 × 8 inches oil painting on artist’s panel. Signed on the reverse side. Varnished to protect it over time.
It is inspired by the following passage in Claire-Louise Bennett’s book ‘Pond’, about a woman living alone in a cottage putting away her shopping:
A splendid deep wide sill with no wooden overlay, just the plastered stone, nice and chilly: the perfect place for a bowl… It’s quite pleasant then, to unpack the pannier bags and arrange everything intently… Aubergine, squash, asparagus and small vine tomatoes look terribly swish together and it’s no surprise at all that anyone would experience a sudden urge at any time during the day to sit down at once and attempt with a palette and brush to convey the exotic patina of such an irrepressible gathering of illustrious vegetables, there on the nice cool windowsill.
Pears don’t mix well. Pears should always be small and organised nose to tail in a bowl of their very own and perhaps very occasionally introduced to a stem of the freshest redcurrants, which ought not to be hoisted like a mantle across the freckled belly of the topmost pear, but strewn a little further down so that some of the scarlet berries loll and bask between the slowly shifting gaps.
Orders will ship within 7 working days of purchase, sealed in a flat, rigid envelope.
‘Still Life’ is an original 8 × 8 inches oil painting on artist’s panel. Signed on the reverse side. Varnished to protect it over time.
It is inspired by the following passage in Claire-Louise Bennett’s book ‘Pond’, about a woman living alone in a cottage putting away her shopping:
A splendid deep wide sill with no wooden overlay, just the plastered stone, nice and chilly: the perfect place for a bowl… It’s quite pleasant then, to unpack the pannier bags and arrange everything intently… Aubergine, squash, asparagus and small vine tomatoes look terribly swish together and it’s no surprise at all that anyone would experience a sudden urge at any time during the day to sit down at once and attempt with a palette and brush to convey the exotic patina of such an irrepressible gathering of illustrious vegetables, there on the nice cool windowsill.
Pears don’t mix well. Pears should always be small and organised nose to tail in a bowl of their very own and perhaps very occasionally introduced to a stem of the freshest redcurrants, which ought not to be hoisted like a mantle across the freckled belly of the topmost pear, but strewn a little further down so that some of the scarlet berries loll and bask between the slowly shifting gaps.
Orders will ship within 7 working days of purchase, sealed in a flat, rigid envelope.
