Tyna Webb 77

"This painting was originally created as my entry for the Rust en Vrede Portrait Award. 

The work was not selected, not even in the preliminary round. Had the selectors glimpsed at the title they might have understood how this is portraiture. The next year it was officially stated that portraits should be of humans and not anything else. Tina Webb was the 77-year-old swimmer who was swallowed by a great white in the sea by Fishoek in False Bay. This comes up immediately if you type her name into Google. It was widely reported. So my idea was to paint her but to render the shark. She is there, but inside and we know this. There is no need for a painting of this lady's face."