‘Lunch on the grass’ (2012) oil on linen, 76.3 x 101.7 cm  2012

A group portrait depicting Constance Walker (my mother), myself and daughter Sophie Walker as a small child, plus Harry and Mary Walton - old friends of my parents. Their daughter Valerie was a childhood friend. Harry knew my father because they both worked on Grimsby's fish dock. Harry was a lumper - a man who unloaded fish from trawlers. Constance and the Waltons must ha...