“Tree between unequal intensity”

This painting is after two separate black and white Bill Brandt photos of famous personalities. (Alec Guinness, 1952 left. Celia Johnson 1947 right).

I used them as models to depict a couple sharing a common space yet isolated and separate in thoughts and spirit. Behind them a window showing a heavily branched tree but no fruit. A metaphor for the couple’s absence in relationship and the intensity within each.