This watercolour was one of a series painted in Melville Haysom’s Saturday watercolour classes at Brisbane’s Central Technical College, where Shirley Miller was enrolled in the commercial design course. These weekend classes allowed a freer approach to painting than that offered by the more formal college course. The painting exemplifies the simplification and decorative mode consistent with an identifiable Queensland watercolour style from the early 1930s, also evident in the work of Kenneth Macqueen, Vida Lahey, Roy Parkinson and FW Potts. Miller painted this work when a circus visited McCaskie Park at Kelvin Grove in inner-city Brisbane.