This is a series of paintings of my wife, Fanny, sleeping. It is a natural progression from my well  known Mannequin Series in which I concentrate on Drapery, one of my favourite subjects to paint. In that series, I draped the inanimate mannequins , giving them a sense of life and emotion. Here I have reversed that idea by taking a real person, the love of my life,  and painting her in an objective manner concentrating once again on the fantastic drapery.