I live and work in Somerset. I studied Animation at UWE, Bristol finishing in 2009 (MA Media). On the re-bound from studying, I went to Florence to spend some time at the Florence Academy of Art, doing portraiture. There I learnt a completely new way of working, using a 17C palette, with 3 primary colours (vermillion, yellow ochre, cobalt blue, black and lead white) My heroes have always been Goya, Rembrandt and Lucien Freud. John Singer Sargent said to his pupil in the early 1900’s “paint 50 portraits, and you will learn how to paint the human face’.
So I set about my project, which is not on show here, though there is a reproduction in the album. So far I have done about 40 family members, and exhibit them together as one piece called;
“I am the Family Face: Flesh Perishes, I Live On” (Thomas Hardy, ‘Inheritance’)