Two elegantly dressed ladies stand looking at us; one tall, slender and defiant, with hand on hip and eyebrow raised, the other shorter and hunched, a snaking arm wrapped around her companion's waist. Emerging from a dark, firey ground, their lips laden with deathly black paint, they assume a somewhat sinister air. The painting is one of a series of works by the artist that portray the politically astute and active, the powerful elite and their equally privileged dependants.