"Was She?" Painting

Please take a few minutes to have a look at my website www.tomfantl.com My work practice has always involved figurative imagery in the context of varying spaces, socio-political situations and commentary, with elements of history, humour, irony and direct socio-political commentary of my journeys, encounters and observations of life which I have experienced and encountered internationally. This current series of works are of personages, drawn, painted combined with elements of collage, in spaces of separation yet all in the same scenario within the format of the each composition. They interact yet don't, as we see around us daily, as life plays out with us all in all its' aspects. The negative spaces enhance the potency of each drawn, painted or collaged aspect. Each of us exists in our own negative space, which changes each time we move, and it is this space that adds to how we are seen by others, as importantly as our physical selves. When using collaged figures, I overpaint the facial elements in black, to remove any recognition or expression, so that the viewer "reads" what is occurring in his/her own context, adding to a unique narrative for everyone.