The Dinosaur Egg presents a fossilised egg placed centrally upon a narrow white ledge, its broken shell revealing a pale interior surface. Around it a sequence of smaller eggs is arranged in a measured line, their surfaces ranging from pale cream and mottled brown to soft blue-green tones, suggesting a variety of species. Light falls from the left, creating soft shadows that articulate the rounded forms and the fractured edge of the fossilised shell. Paul S. Brown frequently constructs still life compositions that explore natural forms drawn from the wider world of collecting and observation. Alongside food, glass and domestic objects, fossils and eggs appear in his work as examples of natural structure and surface. Their varied markings, mineralised textures and subtle colour shifts provide the artist with subjects through which to examine tone, scale and balance within a carefully ordered arrangement painted directly from life.