Original artwork description:

Being curious and observing people together socialising or working together I began to notice the characters I was creating in my drawing reflected different kinds of personality traits: (I stumbled across the theory of ‘Big Five’ personality traits) Extroversion,
Openness to experience, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticisms.

For me painting deals with how I negotiate these preoccupations about community life into pictorial space, recent months have demonstrated that our health and a healthy lifestyle is clearly connected to being together with people and with our relationships in the community.

A good friend that I worked with used to talk loudly, she was definitely an extrovert, she was a loud talker! It didn’t matter if you were in a quiet space or in a cafe where you wanted to keep the conversation private. I was given a lift by her and whizzing around the Bow roundabout she was actually shouting about something quite funny and the sense of the movement and the funny conversation combined in my memory to create this image.

Materials used:

oil paint

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