The Pink Armchair Portrait Project began in 2019, when painter Ben Fine, searching for connection amid the isolation of COVID, spent 18 months creating twelve portraits of friends and family. The pink armchair emerged as both symbol and stage: a worn, mid-century, living-room recliner anchoring each portrait in a shared physical setting.

First exhibited together in a grid, the portraits generated unexpected visual and emotional resonances, revealing both our collective human experience and the individuality of each sitter.