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Coming back to the question WHY I paint faces/people, and does there have to be a WHY? Well,Yes, I believe there does. Artist’s are led by influences that motivate them to paint what they paint. Sometimes a bit of digging in the unconcious mind is necessary. My need to paint faces/people is trying to ‘understand’ my relationship with the people in my life.Trying to understand WHY over the three years I have been so compelled to paint faces has been my biggest struggle. However, when I looked at all my work over the last three years, I came to the realisation that not only has all my work been about faces, but about my relationship with men in my life. From my son, brother, lover, father to my now partner, they have all been about my relationship with them and how I perceive them to be. My paintings are close-up and intense and are of ‘men’ who have a had a huge effect in my life.