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The artist wrote of this painting that she had 'wanted to make some paintings which had a thin flat surface. A piece of paper, as an object, seemed an obvious choice for the subject of a painting; but paper that had an image of some sort inscribed on its surface seemed more interesting to paint, which resulted in some paintings of Japanese prints. Having found a direct way of painting several scenes, and then wanting to describe the surface as something more fragile than the prints had suggested, a collection of stamps became the subject of the next group of paintings. These were followed by paintings of butterflies (there is no obvious connection between stamps and butterflies, there was a similarity in how I could paint each object.) A butterfly was similar in scale to a stamp, and involved the same, small quick brushstrokes, but these marks added up to something completely different to that of a landscape or portrait.