This picture contains one of my recurring themes; that of a civilization coming to an end, and here we have a statue of a woman, who, in a frozen moment symbolises the destruction of a way of life that will be born again but come to an end in a similar fashion.
This painting has succeeded because it has been painted with a drawing technique with the brush where the painting has the same feel and structure as the drawing using strong colour contrasts rather than tonal contrasts.
