Well at last it was completed , and I'm still not completely happy with it. It's 210 cm wide, all my paintings are on the large side. This took a long time to do.

It's about love, the people upright in the trees are uninterested in love, the people horizantal , kind of floating, they are waiting for love, the people falling down are about to fall in love and the people on the ground are meeting their new love. The two main figures represent a long time love that has ended, one has died. It's a cycle. My parents both died in the space of four years of each other, my father died while I was working through this. It was right I represented their 63 years together. Some of the leaves are from their garden.

I entered this for John Moores exhibition and for the Portrait competition at the National Portrait gallery, both in recent months, it was rejected for both....am I annoyed..,.too fackin right ...I think it's a very nice work, judges are just people..but as I said it makes it prohibitive to enter London things if it costs so much for vans and stuff. Make smaller paintings Gary...bla bla..x