New work: a still life with pears

A table after lunch. Pears in a blue bowl, prawns on a plate, a heel of bread, glasses with a little wine left in them, a candle not yet lit. Nothing is arranged; everything is where it was put down.

I painted it over two weeks, mostly in the afternoons when the light in the studio turns yellow. The yellow of the paper is that light. The blue is the bowl, and the plates, and the edge of the table.

I wanted the painting to feel like the moment before someone clears the table — still warm, a little untidy.

The work will be shown for the first time later this year. Prints will follow in the shop.

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