Laptop Writer

A woman with headphones typing on a laptop glimpsed on a train journey and surreptitiously caught in a sketch became the subject for a painting of contemporary life. I don’t know why but I felt it was a compelling image worthy of many hours of design studies and painting. The view out of the window is a blur of dark stripes very similar to my abstract paintings derived from landscape colours. Is it a view? Or maybe it’s an abstract painting in contrast with the Hopperesque realism of the inside of the train carriage. Like Edward Hopper I have tried to create the atmosphere of an isolated life in the modern technological world. Whose is the cup of coffee with the lid on? I don’t know. Painted in the early 2000s it is one of the last of a series of figure centred paintings from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s.