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![Painting of people eating at table](https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/l5show2021/files/2021/01/1.jpg)
![Painting of police officer sitting against wall](https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/l5show2021/files/2021/01/2.jpg)
The paintings explore the relationship between myself and my father. The meal captures the isolation within any relationship. Two adults now – childhood adulation replaced temporally with separation and difference. Isolation despite proximal nearness. The second portrait sympathetically observes his attempts to keep together a complex family during huge social upheaval. Adulation replaced by realistic respect and more honest understanding of responsibility.
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