Five Duets
On Five Liz Larkin Paintings

This piece was written as a gift for Liz Larkin on the occasion of her 60th birthday and was commissioned by her husband Chris Speller. I am extremely grateful to Chris for commissioning the work which was composed in January 2018 after sneaky viewings of the paintings. My thanks too go to Mandhira De Saram and Richard Jones who worked with me on the pieces, gave the premiere performance and made the recording.

For the purpose of this application I have included the third duet below.

This is one of the most striking paintings in the set. The quite drastically different, more impressionistic painting technique is exciting but despite its radically different style there is an uncanny consistency with the other pictures.