Dilys Finlay-Stephens

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• Dilys Finlay-Stephens portraits are very much influenced by her grandfather, the American portrait painter Thomas Edgar Stephens, who painted the entire Eisenhower cabinet and the last life portrait of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. Her portraits concentrate more in depicting her subjects as products of their urban environment. Finlay-Stephens looks to Dutch Masters and also colour photography for her influences. Feathered shapes are pressed against glass and here sometimes the contest between motion and stillness, like life and death, seems to suggest trapping, and the states of suspension, transience, and metamorphosis.