3 of a collection of 6 Lady in blue, is beautiful, cool, confident but looking for something, you're never sure what she’s looking for, she has her face to the sun as if in hope and expectation, waiting for something, but what? I love painting women, my women are all beautiful, women don’t need faces or clothes to portray beauty. My women come in all shapes and sizes they could be from anywhere in the world. Beauty is a feeling, a glow inside that radiates out, I try to capture that glow with every brush or knife stroke. I wanted Lady in Blue to look comfortable with lots of pleasing curves, a young attractive woman, exquisite but above all at ease with herself. I get a lot of my inspiration from Vincent van Gogh with his bold use of colour his expressiveness, and I like to think I’m a little impulsive like him, I had Van Gogh in mine as I was working on Lady in Blue. I always try to put something of myself in my paintings, in the form the colours the brush stokes, my feelings, my joy, sometimes my darkness but I hope mostly joy and happiness. My art is me, my paintings, wherever they go in the world, a part of me goes with them and I hope that comes out in my work and you also feel it.