Sometimes ideas can come from looking at a completed painting and this one came about by such means. The format and composition were similar in aim to my previous painting of hotel windows which was to create a mood and give a sense of a person not so much enclosed in a building but someone enclosed in their thoughts.
I tried to paint the figure as if he is behind glass, which was tricky because there needed to be a balance between a solid figure and a figure slightly disappearing behind a window.
Man at the Window, 2026, oil on canvas, 61.15 x 25.25 cm
