On a group visit to London, myself and a few others went along to the Frank Auerbach retrospective at Tate Britain.
Having spent time looking at Auerbach’s work in books and online, it was a completely different experience to see them up close.
The paintings were so thick with paint, that they were almost sculptural and something you can’t really appreciate from a printed image.
I’m particularly pleased to see his charcoal portraits in the exhibition. As with the paintings, there are layers of torn paper that had been worked over, that you can’t really see in a photo.
