Here is a self -portrait from 1978 in oil pastel. It was in my final show at Leeds. I only have this, a few more drawings and a little oil I shared in the previous post. The setting is the garden at my parents’ house in Helton. Yes, it is very influenced by Munch who I studied for my final dissertation. We are inspired and influenced by so many artists throughout our lives, but ultimately have to find our own artistic voice and not slavishly copy. We work through the influences that resonate and articulate our own artistic voice whatever that may be. That is not wrong, as Francis Bacon iterated ‘To create something …is a sort of echo from one artist to another.’