A young woman, her shoulders bared, along with her heavy soul and mixed emotions, sits leaning forward, part reclining, part on edge, her hand to her neck, beside herself with worry, regret, remorse or simply seeking internal answers to questions that just won’t go away.

Her long hair cascades down her back, the only thing she can free from this pent up frustration, dejection, whilst bedlinen and/or a flowing, full dress from the night before sweeps and wraps around the rest of her restless frame and mind. Fletcher Sibthorp is the past master at creating emotion-stirring figurative pieces of this illustrative stature, ‘Perpetua’ being the very latest in the contemporary artist’s long line of studies within his chosen genre and depicted here.

A phalanx of blackened, darkened vibes filters solidly across the background, punctuated only by the positioning of the aforementioned young woman, all softened skin tones and white, cream, vanilla and red-ish clothe and material populating and dominating the foreground with her abject sensuality.