Alice Hefferman is interested in portraiture as it how you can create a persona in the image. The different lighting techniques changes how you read an image for example, low lighting can give a dark and negative implications to the work were as light and colourful images show a more positive aesthetic.

She is working in the style of Johnannes Vermeer and Rembrandt. This is because Vermeer has a very interesting use of colour as he used the theme of blue and gold throughout the work whereas Rembrandt has quite dark, plain images but used subtle hints that allow you to read who that person would have been or what their profession was.