Oil on canvas

60 x 80 x 2 cm

Unframed

This took a previously untried direction. It was something I felt compelled to paint after spending 40 years talking to doctors, radiographers, surgeons, nurses and various paramedics about that they do and often watching them do it. There was no particular charismatic moment here, just endless observations. I wanted to see if I could make a picture of a thoracic operation. I titled this "Surgery", the American term for what we call an operation.