9 × 12 inches. oil paint, oil pencil on panel

Perdy and Picou, a perky pair of parakeets that someone absconded with in the night…

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”