This little painting was shortlisted for Bond Street Gallery’s The Warp and the Weft, in Brighton. Its a very personal one as it cant get more personal than yourself....its called "Where I begin" and this is the concept from where it was born...

This painting was inspired by a photo of my mum and her sister, back in Romania in the 1950s. Ive been thinking of the warp and weft of my own being, being a Romanian national established in the UK for 20 years. So Ive decided to depict two versions of me, two dresses, two patterns, under the same sky, same hand held between us. The faces dissolve into blue where both identities begin, indistinct and unclaimed. But the legs are painted solid, grounded on the same red earth: proof I stand in both places now, not halfway between them. Warp is the thread you're born with, invisible once the weaving starts. Weft is what you add, year by year, country by country. Neither makes cloth alone.

Available for purchase through the gallery and on show from the 17 Oct - 8 Nov.