Curator Statement

Like Yellow bird, also sets out to be a very decorative painting, showing that when you look through the windows downstairs in the Cabin, each window frames a particular painting: one’s the beach, one’s the bougainvillea. Again I wanted this painting to be, at this stage, a series of pictures within pictures. There are the two chairs: a more masculine chair and a more feminine chair; the table cloth with a sketchpad on the table cloth that shows another view of the cabin painted within that particular sketch itself; the classic sort of still life objects of the bowl, the fruit and the jar; and again, something of the overall pattern and no doubt the strong influence of Matisse’s work that I was feeling at that stage.