From the Painting Guide: This painting, more so than Marcala, is in the bright colours I associated with Central America, with striking contrasts between the colours giving a sense of the strong natural light. I'm not sure what the object at the front on the right-hand side is, I'm guessing some sort of bag or container. Likewise, people who've never encountered corn-on-the-cob hung up to dry may not recognise the rows of these at the top of the painting and some may miss the fact that it's growing outside the window.

Things to consider:
• Interpretation: There's a lot of 'story' in this painting, which holds the viewer's attention. For example, is anything implied by the frame within a frame? Or in the fact that the two women have their backs towards you? Are they heading towards the church or not?
• Composition: The disparate parts of the composition come together to provide structure: the church, the figures and the gourd form a strong diagonal, emphasised by the fact that they all share the same light tone. The bag(?) and plate/pan on the wall mirror themselves across this diagonal, emphasising it even further.

Extra from the artist: Camino a la Feria is a view from a window about a lady walking towards the church with a bag on her back, the way the country people carry their belongings when they travel. In the first plane, inside the house, there is the pottery that the Lencas Indians make in the different parts of Honduras, that is why the difference in colour and texture. The bottom right figure is their interpretation of a turkey, which is supposed to give good luck. There is a similarity with North American Indians regarding the turkey – they are eaten for reunions, weddings, funerals, etc. The Lencas Indians were the ones who were in the country when the Spaniards discovered Honduras. They live in different parts of the country and they are very artistic and express themselves through pottery and textiles. All of them are Catholics, but they are very attached to their traditions. They live from the corn that they grow. I dedicate my paintings to their traditions and ways of life. The watercolor Marcala is a town where there is a large Lencas community.