In 1964 Alfred Cohen and his wife, Diana, moved out of London to Kent, where they remained until 1978. 'It was Kent that engaged my feelings more fiercely than any other place I can remember', he told the journalist Philip Oakes. 'Ballards' was the house next door to the Cohens. This interior with a rocking chair, sideboard and brightly coloured rug is in the artist's typically robust Expressionist manner, executed in a dominant blue and green palette. Cohen reacted strongly to the Kent countryside and in his Kentish landscapes sought to reflect what he called the 'impenetrably, all-over green that I could think of no way of getting into [...] as a painter', and which is perhaps anticipated in this interior.