Curator Statement

A picture about worry and sadness, in a sense, because my mother was quite ill and if you look carefully into the painting you’ll see also my father’s head is upside down in the top left hand corner with a plane suspended. He had already died and I was worried about my mother and I made this painting, she loved daffodils, she loved yellow, as obviously I do and we all do, and so I made her face as part of the vase and a new moon. Fortunately she lived for quite a years after this, probably for about maybe another 10 years or so but at the time, I guess I was facing the prospect of losing her and I wanted to make a painting to get some of those feelings out.