Winter Painting

The starting point of this painting was a photograph I took some years ago of a couple of artist friends, late afternoon on a winter's day in Sydney, Australia. We were walking home across the Domain, after we'd spent the day in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. I started with abstract painterly marks in the background and then "carved" the figures out of these gestures. The painting does not need a decorative frame, as it can be hung from the cord attached to the stretcher frame, and the edges are clean unprimed canvas.