The cafe.

[England] : 2001.

1 painting : acrylic on paper; 76 x 50.5 cm

Acquired with David Beales archive PP/DBL

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Wellcome Collection 3313100i

D.Beales (signed lower right on recto). Suburban landscape (in pencil on verso).

Title provided by the artist.

"Another painting called Suburban Landscape. It is also called 'The Cafe' which I think is a better title and will avoid confusion. It was painted in 2001. The first painting was inspired entirely by a dream. I made a quick sketch as soon as I woke up and worked from it. The second painting, 'The Cafe' iis informed partly by a dream I had of Bexley, The people with the heads of birds are patients in the community. The heads of birds are meant to represent the side effects of psychiatric drugs. They were not from the dream, they were put there deliberately. The green people in the canals are just something I saw in the dream, they have no intended meaning." -- David Beales 22/03/2023

Donated to Wellcome Collection by David Beales in 2019.