The Silence

Set in the artist’s garden in Wandsworth, this painting depicts three people observing the two minutes silence on Remembrance Sunday. The artist explained that he always found this silence very eerie, when everything went quiet except sounds like a dog barking.

Themes of isolation can be found throughout Carel Weight’s work. He wished this painting to convey his belief that although people join to perform identical rituals, they are essentially solitary individuals – to the extent that the three models for the painting were painted separately and never met.