In My Wife and Son the artist's wife, Margaret, and his son, Stephen, are depicted at the family home in London. The painting is fairly heavily textured as a result of Blamey's technique, which involved applying paint mainly with the edge of a palette knife. This process would often take several months to complete and may have partly directed him towards subjects regularly available to him. During the 1940s and ... http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blamey-my-wife-and-son-t06868/text-summary