portrait

This is part of a portrait that I'm busy working on. I'm trying out a new process, using the energy lines to create the feeling for the piece. I've done this in drawing for many years, but its another thing all together when paint is involved!

It's a portrait of a family friend. I'm hoping this painting will honor her, and allow her to acknowledge her deeper strengths. She's an investment banker, she flies round the world every other day, signing multi-million dollar contracts, shopping in the most expensive boutiques. She's confident and successful and completely on top of her game in the male dominated world of South African banking.

But she worries sometimes about not having a family to come home to, she works to hard to build up any deep or intimate relationships. So she is sad, and a little afraid, and she lives and loves hard to steady herself.

This painting is for a beautiful, strong, radiant woman. Brave, intelligent and headstrong.

I honor the contribution she makes by being alive.
I want her to experience herself as so much more than the sum of her hopes and fears.