Oil on canvas

100 x 70 x 2 cm

Unframed

My interest was in the face so all other elements are subsidiary and I freely pillaged the real world to include the garden chair, the little teak table and the olive tree. I knew I wanted the picture to close out at the top in an acid green but was not sure if a simple stripe would suffice. It was not until I had those elements fixed that I introduced some more dark green plant shapes at the top of the picture.