Complexities of the human condition are satirised, hinting at darker themes of alienation or failure.  The artist’s subtle and atmospheric application of oil paint  is reminiscent of European Old Masters’ paintings. There is a distinct parallel with French impressionist painter Edgar Degas and his iconic ballerinas – subjects for whose outer beauty hides a secret existence, of difficult lives marred by poverty and prostitution. Both Dayle and Edgar’s portraits evoke a sense of this duality, of an idealised, immortalised image that hides the dark-side of being human. Dayle’s theatrical carnival of characters tempts the viewer to peep into her voyeuristic and vaudevillian inner world.