Are We There Yet?

This painting is a scene I know well. As an adolescent I spent many hours waiting for buses, my mother has epilepsy and is unable to drive so from a young age if I wanted to go somewhere, I had to rely on myself.
Growing up, the bus stop was always filled with people reading books or listening to 'walkmans', not so different from now, seeing most people with their nose in a phone.
This painting as with many others painted by me is about capturing a moment in time. I have distorted a few details here and there to create a narrative. What it's about exactly is up to you, I've left you all the clues.

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Leigha White lives and works in central Victoria and focuses on various forms of painting and printmaking. Her practice has seen her painting portraits of notable Australians, and working in printmaking studios in Sydney and Melbourne. Leigha has collaborated with many printmakers over the last 20 years and her work is included in printmedia editions that are now part of permanent collections in galleries and libraries around the world. Her work has been exhibited in the Mosman Art Prize, Salon des Refuses, Portia Geach Memorial Prize and the Naked and Nude Prize. Her personal philosophy as an artist is to pay no attention to restraint. White’s work is very much an extension of herself, interests and personality. It is often a portrayal of life captured in a moment of time, distorted through her lens. "People tend to rationalise the meaning of an artwork by interpreting emotions and clues, these assumptions lead to a narrative and I encourage this process by manipulating compositions". As a printmaker, White explores the infinite possibilities of the abstract aesthetic and enjoys the freedom it gives her to expand techniques without conventional limits.