Oil on canvas

76 x 103 x 2 cm

Unframed

I thought I would do a conversation piece as so many of my people pictures just concentrate on a single figure, often accompanied by a cat.  This called for two figures at least. I could remember two that featured a man and a woman. Gainsborough’s “Mrs and Mrs Andrews” with a couple and their hound settled under a tree.  It is all about him. No conversation, just “look at me and what I have: a wife, rolling acres and the leisure to shoot over it.”  Herself is a decorative appendage, Henry Moore’s “King and Queen.’’  A man and a woman side by side, staring out across Yorkshire, not talking to each other, but sharing ownership.