The 1950s were a turning point in the career of Agar, finding inspiration in the Canary Islands early in the decade, she gained a new lease of life artistically and entered a highly creative and productive phase of her career, evidenced by around sixteen solo exhibitions between 1946 and 1985. Speaking on her personal style, Agar once said that we all walk on two legs ‘and for me, one is abstract and the other is surreal’, the present example is a tightly composed and layered work that harnesses these two interests and emulates collage, a medium the Artist often employed throughout her career. Typical of other oils painted in the 1970s and 1980s, this work is suggestive of Agar’s strong and skilful colourist sensibility, utilising the intense blue colour that pervades with her painting. Showcasing the elements of chance and discovery that are characteristic of the Artist, there is the potential for the viewer to find Agar’s classic abstracted motifs throughout the composition, including shells, fossils and foliage.