I have just finished this painted commission. It is based on the ‘ships in the night' idiom illustration I created for my book, 'Hyndman’s Illustrated Compendium of International Idioms’. I needed to incorporate the colours teal and cranberry into the painting as well as the first line of the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from which the phrase, ‘ships that pass in the night’ came from.
