Oil on canvas. A painting of London Liverpool Street Station in this morning’s rush hour, as viewed from the platform above the concourse at the eastern side of the station, looking west back across the concourse, the huge board of destinations obscuring the view of half the station.
While much of the scene is still, lines of matchstick people show the movement around the concourse, forming lines showing the streams that form between the platforms and various exits (up, off towards Bishopsgate, down towards Broadgate, and the Underground station to the right (and left)), as well as little puddles forming of people waiting for trains, or for other people to join them.
Of the people, mostly only their heads are in view, a variety of faces, hair colour and hats visible - these, together with a mix of colours, both bright and dull, from clothes and bags give the streams a sort of rainbow effect.
Funnily enough, my recent experiences of Liverpool Street in the morning are very different to how I was imagining it above. There’s not all those many people at all. Far more of a trickle, you might say.
And it’s completely different in the evening, of course. Much more of a high tide or flood with people waiting and watching for their platform to be announced with little streams of people darting in between them heading for theirs; or those arriving for evening/night work or an evening out.
