Platoon section
Platoon Section
John Hayes, Rory Donovan, Bernadette
Fallon, Mark Wright, Eoin Stapleton, Mark Sheridan, Louise Mullen, Sean Murphy
and Paddy Dullard
Triptych, 88 x 28 inches, 2007
I painted this over a few months. Each
soldier posed for a couple of days. A platoon has about 40 members who are
divided up into sections of 9, each led by an NCO. I wanted to paint this basic
fighting unit as an extension of the idea of a weapon.