Booth Group 1983

Ralph Goings made this watercolour painting of a diner, called "Booth Group," and the way he’s captured the light, well, it makes you feel like you’re right there, doesn’t it? Look at how the colours shift and blend, creating this sense of depth and mood. I can almost feel the cool, smooth surface of that tabletop, the slight give of the seats. It’s so real, it's unreal! I wonder what Goings was thinking as he painted each detail. Was he remembering a favourite diner, a feeling? Painting is a funny thing, right? It's like you're chasing a ghost of an image, trying to pin down something that’s always just out of reach. It’s a conversation across time, a nod to other painters, to Hopper perhaps. We’re all just trying to capture a moment, a feeling. The joy of it is that there’s no right or wrong way to read it. It’s about what you bring to it, what it stirs in you.