Is She Asleep ? Canvas Print

An attractive young woman with dark hair could be asleep or just awake, her eyes closed, her neat finely fluted nose, puckered lips and well defined cheek bones, seemingly oblivious to all events, but somehow contented in what she imagines, but is she asleep or just awake ?

I live in Manchester. I am influenced by L.S. Lowry and Arthur Delaney, Northern artists. My mother and sister also paint, and I have included some of their paintings. I started out as a naive-pictorial artist, painting nostalgic trams from the past (there is a gallery of these) and as I have developed, I have become more pictorial, but I still have some naive elements in my work. Recently, I have been concentrating on portraiture, and I look for a facial expression in a subject which is interesting and can demonstrate an aspect of that person's character and psychology, perhaps also their current mood. My artist mentor for this must be Rembrandt and I have studied his paintings, especially the colors he uses for wrinkles and lines around...