‘Endgame’, (2011). Oil on linen. 90 x 120 cm.  2011

Since I am now elderly the prospect of death is on my mind - however, I am aware that art historians tend to look at the late works of artists in order to detect signs of impending death - so I also wanted to oblige them! In the late 1950s, while an art student, I saw Ingmar Bergman's film ‘The Seventh Seal’ in which a monk - a personification of death - plays chess with a...