This is Blue Kitchen (1996, Usher Gallery)by Mary Mabbutt (b1951) with overtones of the gentle paintings by Winifred Knights. It is a softly lit image of serene ironing which may not be how everyone views their pile of laundry, but no-one can deny the appeal of the warm, Aga-heated kitchen seen, perhaps, from a window in front of the sink. Mary Mabbutt has also created a series of kitchen table paintings, one of which is in The Met. Recent exhibitions include those at, appropriately, The Table in Hay-on-Wye.