The beauty of the painting is in its simplicity: the simple dress that the woman wears, the simple sheets hanging from the clothesline, the simple task that she performs. As one essayist explains Alex Colville's work: "It is uncluttered by period sentiment, aloof, complete and self explanatory: such things travel well through time."
Alex Colville embraced magic realism, "a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy." While Colville passed away in 2013, his style is alive and well in artists like Alan Bateman, son of the famous Robert Bateman.
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