A model, a chair and the artist in retrospect

This red chalk drawing is steeped in memories. It was made over thirty years ago during a transient period in my life and work. My studio was a haven of calm in a tempestuous matrimonial sea.

My model was a young lady from St. Vincent who worked for a year as my assistant; the chair was from the set of a film made on the island of Hemmingway's The Old Man and the Sea; and the artist was tentatively beginning work on a series of paintings and sculptures titled, Daughters of the Caribbean Sun. 

The world has moved on since then and the series I began with Alice as my model, now amounts to hundreds of paintings and scores of sculptures. 

Alice, my model and assistant.