Love Goddess is based on Goddess, a work for string orchestra, composed in 2009 in memory of the Cheshire artist Dorothy Bradford. It is based on a painting (oil on canvas) of the same name that the composer now owns. This version, for viola and piano, differs somewhat from the original, and was written specially for a recording of the composer's instrumental music on the Naxos label (Naxos 8.574224), performed by Tim Pooley and Paul Janes.