Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.

So profound was his attachment to the village of his birth that most days he would take the train back home in time for tea. The village's Methodist Chapel where the artist worshipped is today the Stanley Spencer Gallery. Spencer met the artist Patricia Preece in 1929 in Cookham.

Spencer's most famous work is the Sandham Memorial Chapel. " Fellow-villagers frequently stand in for their Gospel counterparts lending Christian teachings an eerie immediacy.