Portrait Practice - Issues that are important to me
The painted portrait from life -I paint directly from life rather than from photographs in all my work, particularly portraits. This makes paintings a time based medium. Recording the human response to the subject over the time it is painted in.
Being a human response rather than 'mechanical' means that it is subjective; effected by the emotions of the painter and the relationship of the painter to the subject making it unique to the period it was painted in.
Immortalising a moment in an artefact, - presenting and celebrating the personal
The act of committing an image to canvas still imbues the subject with implied value, for various historic and material reasons.
Making a painting of a person, direct from life; a unique artefact in a historically weighted medium, is effectively a way of showing you value the subject, as is exhibitingit
It is a human response (rather than electronic/photographic)
Contemporary relevance
Celebrity culture
Pushing the medium and my technique
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