oil on collaged canvas, 120 x 100 x 4cm
I started this last summer, got it out again recently and added the little white dog and beefed up the roses. It started as a kind of self portrait via the pots, which live on the french door steps outside my studio, and are some of those I have left from being a potter from 2003 to 2016. Then that hot July afternoon light took over. I follow Bonnard in hiding the little dog – my daughter’s terrier – in the shadows. It will be in Graystone gallery’s Festival show this summer, in Edinburgh.