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In your shadow examines the influences and the impact the canon has had on artists from different backgrounds. It is an attempt to draw out the idea that paintings inherit their maker’s ideologies, and in turn become a reflection of society.

In the figurative painting process, the painted image is influenced by the external changes that are happening in real time - while a painting may be thought out beforehand, there is no amount of planning that can predict the ending. In this way, paintings move faster than their painters: they move in the same way as ideas - sometimes dissipating before …