Still Life (2018) is a celebration of the life and work of the abstract artist Clyfford Still (1904-1980). Four of the movements are musical meditations on Still’s paintings – these are interspersed with three movements that explore Still’s passion for Jazz, Beethoven, and William Blake.

The paintings that give their names to movements 1, 3, 5, and 7, exemplify four tropes in Still’s work – black paintings, blue paintings, paintings that use a lot of space and emptiness, and paintings that use areas of highly contrasting colours.

Still Life was commissioned by Patrick Sutton and Kimberly Patterson. The first performance took place at the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO, on 21st March 2019. Published by Doberman-Yppan © 2020 ISBN: 978-2-89796-078-0

Still Life was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in 2021.