Portrait Of An Artist Painting

While stepping from a grey winter's day into a brightly lit colourful art exhibition, I looked behind me and saw the whole scene before me reflected in a flash on the sunglasses of my longtime friend and fellow artist. The reflected pattern of light and colour which contrasted strongly with the monochrome colours outside suddenly became the inspiration and format for this portrait of my friend, an artist, whose quest in life has been to marshal the power of colour, form and light through paint to his particular vision of the world, fuelled by his life's experiences and endless imagination.