"A portrait, done well, causes you to consider the person looking back at you. It makes you wonder about the kind of life they might have lived up to that point at which you found them. And if you look closely, if you look carefully, you soon realise that no matter who it is that sits in front of you, their reason for being sits there also. All the trials and the tribulations they've experienced along the way, all the joys and all the heartaches."

"A portrait has the ability to capture the soul of every being and beast that walk this strange and meandering path through the world. It makes us realise that we do not walk this path alone."