Watercolor, colored pencil and oil pastel on watercolor paper

12” x 16”

Signed recto

2025

I did a whole series of works this spring of figures sleeping in beds which never got posted or shared anywhere. :) I have always loved figures in beds — particularly Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings of couples in beds — and have often thought this would be a very romantic, potentially melancholic, theme. If that ever happens and you buy this, you can say that you have one of my first ever studies. :)

Note: Studio sketches have been worked from and will often have imperfections: fingerprints and/or smudges, holes from the pins that held them to the wall, tiny splatters of paint, pieces of tapes or ripped edges. The sketches have often been worked from for larger paintings or used as inspiration for other work; the imperfections give the work character and show that they were well loved, used, and present in the artist’s studio.