Peter Burgess
Still Life with Green Marble, oil on panel, 111⁄4x14in (28.5x35.5cm).
I wanted a pyramidal composition with different degrees of reflectivity in the objects. The eggs were rendered in Mars yellow, light red and blue black; the red cup with Winsor red deep, cadmium red deep and Mars violet deep. The division in the background between the areas of green umber and Payne’s grey lies on a Golden Section