My current practise around Portraiture

My current practise around Portraiture

Playing around and evolving the bigger meaning of Portrait is an ongoing journey in my work, and I was totally stimulated by the Howard Hodgkin exhibition Absent Friends at The National Gallery, all abstract paintings in response to specific people from his life.

I would rather be unpeeled, represented as an entity of non-human form as a true portrait of myself…it’s a leap of faith and understanding but crucial in gathering an essence of the true self – I will see what unfolds over the coming months and years.

 

 

Portraits: Mercy

Portraits: Mercy

She is a beautiful woman whose calmness I was keen to capture.

As the sittings unfolded, there were three two-hour portrait sittings, I wanted to wrap a narrative around her, a wisdom, a relation to the land and a waterfall. I had encouraged her to wear a white skirted dress which created almost wave like shapes. The base of the painting remains quite fluid and suggestive, which crashes against the diagonal of her descending braided hair.  Where she stops and starts is intended to be ambiguous. A theme current in my “Falling Series”; where do we dissolve into the landscape to reappear again?

If you would like to discuss a portrait commission, please contact me here.

Mercy