Close your eyes and you can very nearly hear the clapping, feet tapping, cheers and sharp intakes of breath, as all around encourage and celebrate the fluid movements and choreographed delight whipped up by the young woman seen in full flow, mid-battle cry as she gets taken away by the spirit and passion of the dance and routine that she’s performing with such majesty and composure. A sensual, sheer red backdrop contrasts the fierce white and 360 degrees of shades within that dress. A dress that seems for all its fabric worth to have a life of its own, the way in which she twists, turns and contours her body, this way and that. Describing it the way we do, really only one artist can be behind such a visually uplifting number, and that’s acclaimed contemporary figurative artist, Fletcher Sibthorp. ‘Rojo y Blanco’ is his latest composition, and is unquestionably trademark Sibthorp, all swashbuckling shades, layers, dimension and interpretation of volatile, enigmatic dance as depicted through the life-like medium of his brushwork and ebullient palette.