Joffe uses paint to suggest the mood of the women she paints. She has said that she wishes her work to exist without narrative, which would esplain the compositions of the paintings and their lack of detail which would give too much away about the women's individual stories. "we should instead study the thickness of the lush paint, the flat blue sky. But at every turn it is the paint that brings us back to the story, the sky as oppressive as being stuck in a one-person tent, the grey paint dripping down her face and leg like sticky perspiration" Mullins, Charlotte, 'Painting People', Thames and Hudson, London, 2006
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