In this new body of work I deal with the issue of facing and confronting the relationship between two individual people. Through the process of self-perception and growth a person can finally allow or trust another person enough to be able to become his companion and to interact, “connect” on the same spiritual level or plane.

The word connect implies a joining of two or more things, so as to form one: to unite. Join refer to a connection or association of any degree of closeness.

I aim to confront these issues through portraiture and body language. The eyes in the paintings confront and communicate subtle nuances; they mirror and reveal emotion. I am focussing on words such as secure versus insecure, intense, persistent, stable, unstable, passion, connected, vulnerable and submissiveness to support the concept and visual imagery.

The medium: Oil and mixed media on perspex.