A baseline is an imaginary standard by which things are measured or compared. This body of work follows on from Love Letters. Once again, hardboard (rather than hessian) was used to define line and volume.

Pattern vs plain.
Positive vs negative.
Scored surfaces vs flat.
Composition = balance and rhythm.

The nature of these works (as with Dressergirls) is to reveal conceptual markings. Pencil lines are clearly visible and not painted out, so that the process becomes part of the finished painting.

The device of a frame within a frame (see Yellow Portrait) compels the viewer to look within the composition.
Pomegranates symbolise continuity, infinity.

Sometimes the narrative is revealed within the compositional nature of the work - the description is in the line. Those looking beyond the figurative in my work may have spotted clues from earlier work, such as Another Rivetting Conversation (1996) and the OFFICE WIVES exhibtion of 1997.

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