Kim Booker’s End of Summer, 2013 revisits a fleeting encounter drawn from a short story she wrote — a meeting between an older woman and a younger man, suspended in the atmosphere of late summer.

A bird appears within the composition as a symbol of freedom and possibility. A second bird has been scrubbed out, its absence marked only by residual traces. This gesture of erasure becomes central: presence and loss coexist on the same surface, echoing the instability of memory and desire.

The image closely reflects Kim Booker’s wider artistic practice and in particular her painterly process. Layers are built, disrupted and partially removed, allowing revisions to remain visible. Rather than resolving the scene, the work preserves its awkwardness — the tension between longing and restraint.

Produced in two colourways, blue and pink, the prints register subtle shifts in emotional tone while retaining the same underlying image. Each edition is limited to 100.

Learn more about artist Kim Booker