The Social Divide Canvas Print

This shows a well to do couple, the man wearing a dapper blue suit, the woman (his wife) a fur coat with a red skirt. The man is having his shoes shined by a shoe-shine man. They look away from him disdainingly. This demonstrates the class system and the social divide.

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...