Pastel on velour is my favorite combination when it comes to painting animals. By using a black paper it allows the creation of atmosphere and a little drama even for the smallest of subjects. An intimate glimpse into the busy life of a field mouse.

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Field Mouse

As a lover of arts and culture, I use this painting to showcase one of the English histories and heritage. The Royal Ascot racing event was inaugurated by Queen Anne in 1711 hosting one of the world's most prestigious race meetings, Royal Ascot, as well as 21 race days and numerous non-racing events each year. It is the occasion when people of every class dress extravagantly and flamboyantly in which ladies wear outrageous hats. This is what influenced this painting – The Royal Ascot Glamour.

The Royal Ascot Glamour

This work is one of the sensuality series which I am using to talk about ladies’ issues. In this painting, I did put more details on the flower but when one of my sons saw the painting, he asked “What’s with all the boobies? I thought Wow! he could not see the hard work on the colourful rose and the lace work on the purple bra but he could comment on the “boobies.” I am sure many people's attention will also be on the boobies but not on the whole picture. This is one of the thorny issues that the beautiful species of the human race has to deal with.
Some women spend a fortune on cosmetic surgeries to enhance their boobies to make themselves beautiful according to the prevailing standard of beauty set in the social media world. It is often said that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder; outer beauty is good but how about the inner beauty?
It would be good to pay less attention to superficial beauty and promote inner beauty which are virtues that we need for a better life.

SENSUALITY6: Lady Rose with a Lace Purple Bra and the Thorns

I liked the expression and light captured whilst my granddaughter was watching television. Candid images are effective when the subject is unaware they are being watched, she was engrossed and I wanted to catch the moment in time without being too detailed, hence black and white.

Gracie

Graphite on drafting film.
I love drawing on drafting film and the detail that it affords. By using a reduction technique, I can create lots of expression and texture resulting in an almost realistic finished piece.

Kitten

Based on a poem by Justine during lockdown.

"The cloth can't hide me caving in upon myself,
Nowhere to go, nobody to see...
I might as well be naked, dumb, mute.
Falling backwards into a black hole of daily stats, numbers
The relentless news of deaths, survivors, tragedies,
Wrestling with it all in a twilight world
Each day morphs into the next,
An unbroken routine, wrenched from the life I knew
I feel like neither man nor woman
Only the meagre stool I sit on grounds me
Angular and awkward, my tired body tries to find some comfort, peace,
While my mind cannot.
Even my hands have grown a new dimension
To cradle my ponderous head
I despair,
Yet I still wear my yellow dress of hope.

Yellow Dress

Rachel experienced a traumatic surgical procedure during her labour. It left her feeling disconnected from her baby son and as if she herself had cheated death. For 18 months her days felt like she was living in a silent lonely, grey world, and her nights were plagued by flashbacks of her time in the operating theatre.
Through therapy, Rachel started to rediscover her old self. She describes opening a door and meeting my old self again. “She's inviting me back to who I used to be”. Outside of the door is dark and shadowy, but once the door is opened it's like opening it to an awesome house party, you feel nervous going in, you start talking to friends again, and you are happy you went.
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Invitation

Andy painted Zara during lockdown. Zara described herself as a stay-at-home Mum, whose anxiety had started years before lockdown. As their dialogue progressed, she found that her understanding of her own feelings and thoughts changed. Her painting showed her as both puppet and puppeteer, a composition that evolved directly out of our conversations about her anxiety. “it revealed more and more to me about my own situation. I realised that the anxiety wasn't bigger than me…it (the painting) has honestly changed everything about my life at this time - beauty still lies within darkness”.

The Puppeteer

The inspiration for this painting was a friend's reminiscences of his grandfather. He remembered his hours of silent contemplation in his allotment, where he was visited by his lost comrades.

The title is drawn from Lawrence Binyon's iconic poem “For the fallen”
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

He will remember them

Alegria

The painting is inspired by the roller-coaster of emotions that Anna herself dealt with following mental abuse, threats, divorce, and low self-esteem.
She has been able to overcome these through meditation. One particular image she uses is to imagine herself leaving her body and floating into the universe. Once there she visualises handing over her pain, sadness, and worries to the universe, trusting that the universe will provide her with the right answer.

Cosmos

Based on an original poem by Laura.
I cope,
I carry this girl though my body is tired,
I carry her,
because I do what's required.
But I cope,
and I'm fine,
and I only hurt,
from time to time.

I Cope

Painted as part of my MA at Coventry University where I was reflecting on moods and emotions.
Andy Farr

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