Original artwork description:

Expressionist oil painting mainly painted with palette knife, on a rollered red background.

This is the latest in the "Mask" series of oil paintings.

We all wear masks in our daily lives to protect our vulnerabilities and our attitudes, but if if you look closely enough these vulnerabilities and attitudes are always seeping out, the mask is always, sometimes imperceptibly, slipping to reveal more than we would like.

We use various masks when grieving, to try to put off the inevitable pain.

Materials used:

oil painting on canvas