Like any of Gillian’s pieces of work, this painting doesn’t quite fit in any category. It’s a portrait but only partly; it has some recognisable elements and some more abstract features. It is rich with colour but full of muted tones. It has many different forms of line which have been used in art before but generally are not put together. This is a story of many stories: of what we know but cannot express, and what we do not even know ourselves; of what has always been there; of paths that diverging or crossed; coexistence and interactions that we were unaware of; of what happened after we moved on; what grew and developed. ‘Soundless voice’ was created with acrylic and other media. It is on a box canvas 30 x 20 inches in size, which is painted black on the sides, signed by Gillian Hancey on the back and in the bottom right corner, and is ready to hang.