"Smoke and Mirrors" (2022)

Oil (Winsor & Newton) on Wooden Board

80 x 120 cm (unframed) 

Painting comes professionally framed in white floater frame. 

 In 2022, I was still a lawyer, drawn to the confidence success seemed to promise. I painted a suited man with a cigarette, but his face dissolves into smoke. The more polished the image, the harder it is to know who’s underneath. I was starting to wonder whether success makes us visible, or gives us another way to disappear