Cream Tea at the Tate Britain November 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 become part of another object.  Circles and straight lines work so beautifully together and this is my ode to cubism and the fab Tate Britain and its delicious cream teas.