Provenance: Private Collection, Auckland

Purchased by current owner International Art Centre 1978

Illustrated p. 76 - 77 The Art of Raymond Ching, Paintings and Drawings 1972 - 1979 Peter Hansard, Collins 1981

The making of this small picture was more than usually complicated and spread over a period of many months. The flash pools which had prompted the painting began to dry up as work progressed and never returned, for this was the year of the worst droughts recorded in southern Britain. There is, therefore, evidence of reworking and overpainting, unusual for Ching

Text: The Art of Raymond Ching, Paintings and Drawings 1972 - 1979 Peter Hansard, Collins 1981