Aphrodite Still Lifes Unkind words such as ‘dirgy’

Unkind words such as ‘dirgy’ and ‘depressing’ are bandied about and there is general agreement that this is a ‘Matthew’ picture

"first met Melissa when I was elected to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2008

an image of the British public at play as if frozen in a Pathé News reel

Both beautifully rendered and so redolent of 1930s America

Aphrodite Still Lifes Unkind words such as ‘dirgy’In our Cecil Court Gallery Aphrodite is the goddess of love and passion but she is also the goddess of procreation and shes a war goddess. I made this painting at the same time as the Birth of Aphrodite so much of what I said about that painting, applies for this one too. I still have a shell background and a feeling of the sea but its much less obvious in this canvas, Aphrodite is less coy and more in her skin much more confident. Perhaps this