My Oil Painting 'Distance' represents the conflicting need for one's own space as subsequently one can feel consumed by love, hence depicting the melting of a couple clinging to one another. Relationships during lockdown can be met with tension, disparity, longing and loneliness. Co-dependency can arise and so too, the danger of losing oneself in another. There is also the need for touch, emotional intimacy and embracing vulnerability. These beautiful aspects of connection to another which the pandemic proved we overlooked. The irony of creating 'Distance' between two souls who don't dare separate, the confiding in one another and awareness of one's mental health during a time where no one is entirely sure of how far we've come and how much further we've to go. The figures are locked in a moment, communicating our basic instinctual need to be held with understanding.