 
						Woman in a Darkened Room
						
												49 x 40cm, oil on board						
						
												The woman, wearing a highly patterned dress, emerges from a dark red background. The composition places the figure’s head in the top left of the picture, with the relationship between subject and pictorial boundaries critical to the optimistic atmosphere I was hoping to achieve.    
(Commissioned portrait shown as part of ‘The Art Of Birmingham 1939-2008).