Cream Tea at the Tate Britain March 2024

I am a huge fan of cubism and have been, ever since I was a child.  I love the way it plays with my mind and enjoy the puzzle of making the composition sing.  I have been lucky enough to have two trips to London last year and both were brilliant fun.  Each time I took a saunter around the Tate Britain which houses some of the great cubist masters, as well as many other amazing artists.  After enjoying the fabulous art, I treated myself to an afternoon cup of tea and a scone (Devon style of course) and sat in the cafe feeling very content.  So much so that each time I took out my felt tips and drew a cubist sketch of my tray to help me remember how happy I felt and how very inspiring this gallery is.

It has been on my mind to create a large work since then and finally I found time in the new year and have produced two works, both just over a metre square to celebrate cream tea at the Tate Britain.  But they are more than that – they represent day trips, that take you out of your ordinary life and inspire and uplift you, and the merit of giving yourself a treat from time to time, because we all benefit from that.

I have enjoyed working out how the wonderful shapes can be cubated and how one line can work for two items.  I hope to take your eye on a journey around the work and discover the artists that inspire me, the motifs from the Tate that I have added to the border and the colours that sing out to me.

This is acrylic on canvas and is 1 x 1m roughly and is float framed in a white wooden frame by Gwilym at The Frameworks.