A face caught in the moment before sleep, or just after waking: eyes closed, expression soft and inward. The artist builds the image up in layers and then lets them break down again: gold leaf drips and flakes across the surface, blue-grey patina pools in the hollows, and a ghost of botanical pattern drifts in from the left edge.

It rewards a slow look. From across a room it reads as a quiet portrait; up close it dissolves into texture, metal and weather. Hung on a plain wall with good side light, the gold does the rest.

Unframed, on deep stretched canvas, ready to hang. Condition report and framing options available on request.