This portrait is created with processes of assemblage, collation, painting and finishing. Employing digital painting and compositing techniques with fragments of found and collected digital imagery, a new life-like portrait composition is formed. Layers of overpainting develop the interpreted results until photorealistic characters emerge. The result is layered down as a digital archival print in pigment ink, which is then worked over by hand with layers of pastel and mediums to create luminous colour and finishing techniques.

Made with a true high-value handmade Tesuki-Washi EchiZen Japanese paper, a highly specialised material that can reveal small marks on its surface, created by the craftsman during manufacture. These small marks and organic containments that can appear in the Kozo and Hemp fibres are embraced and incorporated into the unique value of each piece.

This piece is framed and glazed with museum grade art glass AR70.