Collaborating with my daughter, ‘Eight’ is a portrait series that started as a way of exploring the shadows within our home differently during lockdown. While influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and master painters of chiaroscuro, side by side, we study the paintings and names of long ago. We then create a portrait together, with as little structure as possible, running with whatever feeling there is on that particular day. Finding her space, her strength, she sinks into the moment, holding that brief period of time. As we make these portraits, I know this time will be fleeting, and I want to inhale in some way, her light. Her time of being eight.
