Over the last months of the cold season, I continued working on a canvas to which I had given the working title >Café des Anges< , partly because of the blue 1930s fabric inspired squares that seemed to billow out from the backs of the chairs like the wings of angels. The friend who kindly gifted me the fabric had lost her mother in her early twenties and as I painted and thought about her it seemed to become an ethereal table with chairs that hovered with the assistance of angelic fabric wings .
The stylised pineapple and sunflowers ground the whole work firmly back in reality . The butterfly and birds suggest flight between the worlds and also between TS Eliot's poetic time present and time past .
The cut sunflowers and fields of sunflowers running along the top of the canvas represent the sheer warmth and joy of the living world .
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