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A relaxed portrait of a middle-aged man. He is sat down at a small table, which has various coloured books on it. One of the books is open and he is holding one of the pages in his right hand. He is looking towards his right, which is the direction the light is coming from. The sitter is dressed casually in a green, short-sleeved, collared shirt. Evelyn Dunbar set out to capture the mood of her sitters beneath the surface of their appearance. Starting with a closely observed scene, she then put her imagination to work, combining an objective observation with her interpretation of the loved and familiar. This is a portrait of the artist's husband, Roger Folley (1912–2008), in his study on the top floor at their Oxfordshire home. Foley described his characteristic pose as 'a celebration of thinking (as distinct from doing with reason)'.