A bird flew out of a tree. In the garden the sun came out from behind a cloud. The perfume from the rose hedge. He stood just beyond the wall. She looked down from her window. In the garden's day they sat on separate seats. Her father a

Light. And shade. Line and shape. Colour, form and perspective. Wall, wood, ceiling or canvas. Pigment in eggyolk or linseed oil. Stroked by brush or spread by knife. On small panels or plastered on vast spaces. All these problems to be worked over and solved. Then a commission from the