Lady Patricia is set against a plain background. Graham Ovenden explains how: the important thing in the picture is the figure: the living human organism within it. The environment is only very secondary to the situation. My general feeling is that the more simple a picture is, the more it can communicate… just looking at the face of the child can be so fraught, so laden, can't it? It can be so filled with every degree of love, every degree of ecstasy: anything you can imagine! Just a simple portrait.
Machynlleth, Wales, Museum of Modern Art (The Tabernacle), The Brotherhood of Ruralists: A Celebration of Three Decades; 8th September- 1st November 2003; number 124 London, Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries, The Brotherhood of Ruralists and the Pre-Raphaelites, June- July 2005, number 26
Peter Nahum, The Brotherhood of Ruralists and the Pre-Raphaelites, 2005, The Leicester Galleries Exhibition Catalogue, illustrated, number 26