Abstract Hello

This is mixed media at its most fearless — oils and pastels colliding on the surface with the productive chaos of a really good argument, the line work cutting through the washes with graphic authority, the whole thing held together by Fleming's instinctive sense of when enough becomes exactly right.

These two are not waiting for your opinion. They have arrived. They are here. They are looking directly at you with the quiet, amused certainty of figures who know they are the most interesting thing in the room.