Bakery

This painting foregrounds the head of a passing shopper, with a vignette of a scene in the bakery behind. It's all held together in a grid of rectangles within which I wanted to invent floating marks like handwriting or symbols to evoke the bread and cakes. The green rectangles of the shop window frame are calibrated against the framing edge of the painting. The woman in the headscarf's plastic shopping bag is a splodge of thick poured pale green. The hair of the woman in the foreground is a thickly applied black that crinkles and smudges at the edge, with a couple of swipes for the reflected light and her hairband. I describe this just because it's difficult to see and feel the paint surface - the coarseness and loveliness of it- in a digital image, and it starts to sound very self-consciously done, but it wouldn't be necessary to describe the surface if you could see the actual painting.