Inside - idea progression

I like the way that the perspex I'd used in monotypes before was in many ways more interesting than the prints - mainly because there was a more subtle range of tones.

1) I also had something like this in mind - trapped inside/behind glass, an image built up by layers. The amazing pictures are by Xia Xiawon

2) Pen studies

3) Oil pastel studies

3) Three different monotypes

4) The perspex originals clipped together after prints were made. Look a bit more mental than usual and didn't quite work out how I intended originally or subsequently (I later started to think that different layered images could reflect different moods/characteristics inside but it turns ot there's only the same intense, miserable mood inside!)