24 × 30 inches. oil paint, oil pencil and encaustic on panel

They were the days of “children should be seen and not heard” - I was less than successful at this…..

The pink that permeates this work speaks to the colour of bauxite and one of my earliest childhood memories. The encaustic overlay on the figures dresses serves to differentiate them from the background while maintaining the hollow nature of the sense of being “other”