Some mornings

I awake with a picture in my mind.  Sometimes it is a picture which I want to produce, and at other times it is an existing image from my memory.  This morning, having spent a lot of time thinking about conversations recently, it was the latter: the magnificent Matisse's The Conversation.  It is not only one of the Matisse paintings I admire, but also in perhaps my favourite style of his.

In looking up the Wikipedia link to insert in this post, I found a subsequent link to a fascinating article by Hilary Spurling who wrote such a wondrous biography of Matisse.  Turning over stones can be so illuminating, and so often also provides more stones for turning.