As if being summoned by something out of this world and beyond our simple ken, an overcoated gentleman of some agreeable social standing is witnessed looking up, fixatedly at the heavens above, his arms almost communicating on his behalf and perhaps that of humankind, whilst his walking stick provides circumstantial evidence of where his attentions were first caught.

Hauntingly evocative and newly recognizable Edwards compositional fayre is measured across an unsettling canvas here, in the leading contemporary fine artist’s latest piece, entitled, ‘The Conversation’.