I don’t usually plan compositions in advance, however in this instance I based the painting on a sketch I made after reading about the Bloomsbury Group. I am an incurable romantic and wanted to capture the mood of curiosity, boldness and defiance that characterises (in my mind at least) the free-spirited lifestyle of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, although the seated figure is not a direct portrait of either one of them.
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