Supermarket

This painting depicts two women shoppers browsing the meat counter of Safeway supermarket in Whitecross Street, near the Barbican Centre. Both are dressed in dark overcoats and one carries an empty wire shopping basket.

A landscape and cityscape painter, Oliver Bevan also depicts ordinary people and places, as well as his own responses to the urban environment: 'my paintings echo my inner life, which seems to parallel a walk down the street - a visual overload of signs, windows, constant movements of people'. Here the sharp perspective lines, accentuated by the bright yellow on the top right, guide the viewer's eye to the end of the aisle, towards the doorway beyond.