Conventional portraits with photographic references are re-invented in these works through drawing painting, and constructed composition, using heightened colour and narrative and symbolic images added to give clues as to who the subject is, and what do they do and know.
Portrait Of Irven Lewis. Oil On Canvas. 35cm x 45cm. 2007. Painted in Vienna with ref. to drawings made 'live' with the model, at earlier sittings in year 2000.