Michael Craig-Martin was born in Dublin Ireland in 1941. He grew up and was educated in the United States, studying Fine Art at the Yale School of Art and Architecture. He has lived and worked in Britain since 1966.

Craig-Martin began making constructions using a variety of materials and colouring them white or silver or leaving the natural wood finish.

Fedden painted this picture ‘from the garden wall, looking upstream to the island, Chiswick Eyot. It is high summer because angelica and cow parsley are out in the quay in June.'

Terry Frost left school and had a variety of jobs before joining the Commandos in 1939.

Frost first visited St Ives in 1946 and was influenced by Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. The artists at St Ives encouraged Frost to move towards abstract painting. He combined this with an interest in modern European art and the work of the great American abstract painters, like Barnet Newman and Willem de Kooning.

This painting was made at an important stage in Frost’s career. The three curves at the top of the canvas were inspired by Rubens painting of three goddesses. The work is inspired by women, in Frost’s words, “perhaps from a time when woman ruled the world". The smear of thin grey paint suggests a reclining figure.