 Thomas Sutcliffe, columnist for "The Independent" described the painting as "flatly representational", "as uninflected as a travel poster", showing "brutalisers obliged to become carers, victims turned to patients".By the time Zinkeisen had become a war artist her palette had already darkened from the colours of her society paintings.Her war paintings use muted greys, browns, and ochres like contemporaries such as Eric Ravilious and Stanley Spencer.