Original artwork description:

This painting explores the portrait of a child soldier in Africa and becomes a symbol of those forced to or have no opportunity to escape drafting into a militia army or are kidnapped to become indoctrinated into fighting a war they do not want any part of. The title of the painting is inspired from The Doors song 'Break on Through' and the painting was entered previously into the ING Discerning Eye painting competition and exhibition and was chosen by David Remfrey RA and exhibited online during Nov - Dec 2020. The painting is made up of a variety of portraits that have been painted on top of one another, built up over a period of years, until a final layer of grey was added and left for one year, before rubbing through the layers of paint to gradually bring the various portraits together to form one portait made of many.

Materials used:

Oil Paint on Linen (Stretched)

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