The Detached residency is focused on the theme of portraiture and one sitter.
It is loosely titled ‘more beautiful than they think’ after Jean DuBuffet’s 150 portraits between 1946 – 1947 depicting contemporary writers and thinkers.
This series of work aspires to beauty, but not in a conventional way. This residency continues my long association with how to convey feeling, an elusive concept in portraiture and, I am questioning what is beauty/beautiful?
How as painter can I represent a feeling and make that visible?
I recently read in Vogue Magazine a Ghanaian artist, Kwesi Botchway saying “the human face is where our emotions are best displayed”. Identity, culture and beauty are themes to explore through portraiture. I am also interested in a painting that is a bit threatening because historically women in painting lack ‘threat’ and are often represented as beautiful and harmonious. This threat lends the female subject an element of power in the relationship with the viewer.
It is loosely titled ‘more beautiful than they think’ after Jean DuBuffet’s 150 portraits between 1946 – 1947 depicting contemporary writers and thinkers.
This series of work aspires to beauty, but not in a conventional way. This residency continues my long association with how to convey feeling, an elusive concept in portraiture and, I am questioning what is beauty/beautiful?
How as painter can I represent a feeling and make that visible?
I recently read in Vogue Magazine a Ghanaian artist, Kwesi Botchway saying “the human face is where our emotions are best displayed”. Identity, culture and beauty are themes to explore through portraiture. I am also interested in a painting that is a bit threatening because historically women in painting lack ‘threat’ and are often represented as beautiful and harmonious. This threat lends the female subject an element of power in the relationship with the viewer.