Paintings series dating from 2021 to 2022 were painted and revisited alongside a series of charcoal drawings . A fragmented abstracted element of one’s self evolved over a period of two years where in some paintings heads and faces appeared whilst in others a full figure emerges , in time and in layers . These paintings were a significant shift in my approach following the Quartet and Tempest work , although sharing the thought with TS Eliot ‘ we shall not cease from exploration’. The abstract figurative self- portraits, tearless and no longer the same; wrapped up in a stillness whilst others rise up and confront . The suggestive portraits within their marks carry their journey and memory with them to appear in an abstracted ground, The second series of work following my illness in 2019 where both body and mind and one’s understanding of self had irrevocably changed.