This work is the first in a series titled ‘November’ which Barns-Graham made at the Curwen Studio in Linton, near Cambridge. The artist spent six days working with Kip Gresham in November, 1991 and this visit marked the artist’s first real engagement with screenprinting. In her diary the artist noted: ‘I was highly nervous and asked to make marks on [a] type of tracing paper. To unwind I asked if I could make ‘a splash’ with black gouache… [which was] done on the ground.’ This work shows the impact of the artist’s trip to Barcelona that October, where she had particularly admired the work of Antoni Tàpies and Joan Miró.