‘What are You Looking At?’

20x20x4 cm (8x8x1.6 inch)

Oils and mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas, 2025

Including a Certificate of Authenticity

When I began this piece, I didn’t start with a story. I started with a feeling. A quiet moment. A pause between thoughts.

I laid down the abstract first: soft whites, pale blues, and gentle greys, broken by deep blacks and sudden bursts of orange. It wasn’t meant to describe a place, but to hold the atmosphere of a thought, the texture of a memory. A space where whispers and shadows mingle, much like the shifting light of autumn.

Into that world, I placed her, because she belonged there. Her pose, her stillness, her presence felt right within the layered colours of the season. She sits with one leg drawn up, a large mug resting in her hands. She isn’t looking at us, or even at the cat beside her. Her gaze drifts somewhere beyond the frame, into a space only she can see.

The cat, black, sleek, and full of silent questions, tilts its head toward her. It feels as though it’s trying to catch her attention, to pull her back into the present. I imagine it asking, without a sound: What are you looking at?

For me, this painting is about that unspoken exchange between two beings, the way a glance, or the absence of one, can hold an entire conversation.

It’s about stillness, curiosity, and the quiet tension between looking and being looked at.

And it’s about autumn itself: a season of pause, of gathering shadows and soft light, of reflection before the turning of the year.

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