The partial inspiration for this painting comes from the artist’s memories of teenage relationships and the differences between how girls and boys ended them. Instead of saying they didn’t love you anymore, girls would often say they were ‘all mixed up’. Here, Gollon reimagines this nebulous emotional state in adulthood, depicting an androgynous figure finding solace in wine.

The painting is shown in the new documentary ‘CHRIS GOLLON: Life in Paint’ (85mins) to demonstrate Gollon’s innovative use of spray paints and a printmaker’s roller. Bacon and Hockney had been criticised for flatness in acrylic which Chris Gollon managed to avoid by combining Old Master techniques, using very thin glazes, with printmaking techniques and – as shown here in this painting – fine art spray paints.