Hawley Square from my studio window (with the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald).
Oil on canvas

This painting is based on the surveyed plan made by Andrew Nesbitt, which gives information about where things are located but not what they look like. I gathered the visual information for the trees from my Nottingham studio window, using the same three trees repeatedly. Andrew’s plan shows five people on the grass, but with no information on what they were doing. I decided that the scene of Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination was the most appropriate ‘tableau’ I could use here; with Jack Ruby coming out from behind the tree in the centre of Hawley Square to shoot Lee Harvey Oswald.