So - for the last several months, I have been working in my little home studio, producing around 17 or so large (4ft) pan pastel and sponge portraits. Some of the subjects are in fact big heads in their field, such as professors etc - but some are just the joy of drawing a large portrait. I also did a large self portrait triptych - called 100 days of Trump - which one of the images is used in my poster.
Some of my other sitters include My Dog Sighs and Fark who are both fabulous Urban artists - so I wanted to show my appreciation of their work.
It is important for me to do this work as a contrast to my digital culture involvement, as I wanted to be able to grasp at the identities of my sitters - something I think is missing from the plethora of Ai images that are now flooding the internet. I am not a luddite - indeed I have done digital artwork - but I wanted to get back to the visceral context of working with paper, pastel and mark making.
Come along and see the exhibition if you are in the Portsmouth area in October and to my talk on Saturday 11th.
