As a part of my research, I want to include some of the artists that I looked. Each work is similar to what my style of photography is, but with a different feeling etc. Maisie Cousins and her series Grass, […]
Eugène Jansson, 18 March 1862 – 15 June 1915 Eugène Jansson, self portrait, 201 x 109 cm, 1910 Eugène Jansson, I, 101 x 14 cm, 1901 Eugène Jansson, self portrait, 32.5 x 32.5 cm, c.1880 I […]
I signed up for the London Drawing Group workshop on symbolic self portraits and did this I’m posting it not because it is a great piece of work but because the emphasis on tone took me right back to school […]
Through an established process of asking artists ‘Why do you make art?’ then using the response received to inform the use of fragrances, I have been making ‘perfume portraits’ of other artists for over 2 years, amassing 40 perfumes so […]
Reflections on image making and taking from 1984-2016
This drawing was inspired by the etchings of Kathe Kollwitz and is a pencil and graphite rendering of myself and my daughter Leona. http://www.switchstudio.co.uk The original etching by Kathe Kollwitz entitled ‘March of the Weavers (Weberzug)’ can be viewed as […]
With this self-portrait I aimed to paint a contemporary piece that would show masculinity whilst also displaying what I enjoy doing most, painting. The idea was to paint the portrait as if I was looking back at myself concentrating on […]
Rarely am I moved to actual tears by a piece of writing but Jenni Dutton’s marvellous Self Portrait with Portals has touched on something deep. How do we connect with memory and what happens to memory over time? What is […]
