Portrait format oil painting on paper. Inspired by a painting of an Elizabethan lady from the National Portrait Gallery, it depicts the torso and head of a woman.

Her head is suspended above her ruff, and from the ruff springs a fish whose eye merges with hers. In addition each fold of the ruff resembles a little fish.

The figure is an inspired reinterpretation of a painting by William Larkin in the National Portrait Gallery.

The piece is a surrealism inspired idea, such as one might find in the work of Max Ernst.

From the Artist:

The meaning is left to the spectator. The eye of a fish momentarily meeting the eye of a person.  The painting is a formal static image, but the fish in flight provides movement and a diagonal element to the composition.