Jane Ostler, ‘If the cap fits’, Oil on canvas, 2013. Photo: Jane Ostler. Courtesy: Jane Ostler. I became interested in the relationship between land and sea, and where they meet. You can use this as a metaphor for the meeting of the male and female sides of a human being, and the conflict that occurs when there is a push/pull between these impulses. Rational/irrational; scientific/spiritual; safe/dangerous; dead/alive; repressed/liberated.