Papaya, Custard Apple and Apple

On a plain wooden tray set against pale paper, a ripe yellow papaya lies behind a small gathering of fruit: a green gourd, a red apple and a knobbly green custard apple. The painter keeps the background bare so the produce carries all the colour and weight.

The paint is thin and quick, the papaya's mottled skin and the custard apple's scaled surface described with economical touches. It is a fresh, informal study of Indian market fruit, warm in tone and direct in observation.