Artists Statement
Whilst we may be isolated from people by time and space, human emotion and the way we relate to those around us remains constant across both of these boundaries. We love, mourn, envy and despise whilst questioning our motives for doing so in the same fashion now as those in ancient Greece, or classical Japan. I investigate this idea by recalling characters and stories from classical literature and linking them to modern portrait subjects by referencing the stories themselves and earlier artistic interpretations.
