Study for the Wren Anniversary Painting

Bright vertical stripes — orange, lime, cyan, pink, red, lilac, blue, green — on unprimed linen, with small marks of gold leaf clustered at the centre.

Colour is the subject and there is nothing else to find. Stripes at exact intervals, a lozenge of graded blues, a field of vertical lines that bends as you move past it. Made to be looked at slowly, and from a distance.