Stay With Me, Under My Coat

2018, Watercolour and Watercolour Pencils on A4

Originally for a poster for a concert of the same name, by Leeds Guild of Singers. The line is taken from Samuel Barber's version of 'The Coolin', a setting of James Stephens' text, translated from a poem by Irish poet Antoine Ó Raifteiri.

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Here, I've set the lovers in Autumn, trying to give a sense of the movement of the wind around them. I've left them quite gender non-specific: this could be any couple, sheltering under the one coat.

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The coat makes them seem as one and we see them only from behind in their private moment, reflected on the wet path. I imagine they're talking to each other as they walk away.